Literature starts as a monologue, but when the ideas take shape of words it becomes an enquiry, a question that the artist asks and want to understand, and develop its comprehension in the realistic expression that is available only outside his abstract domain of imagination, literature comes into existence. This is not about telling others what he knows, but it’s finding himself what he knows and what he understands, but through the collective consciousness of the readers. Basically it is raising questions , opening windows into unknown, to comprehend what he see, to see what he know, and share aesthetics and mysteries with the reader, who is the sole reason why art comes into existence. If art was only an expression of the artist for himself this expression would not have taken shape beyond a monologue, and would have confined to his imagination, as to the artist no place is as good as his mind.
The beauty, imagery and the sensibility that is evocative from literature takes each reader to a different level of aesthetics and mystery which can be well beyond the level of the writer, because the writer only provides a mirror and each reader see the image according to his own polish of the mirror, artist is only the initiator of question but his art develops and grows well beyond his query.
hmmm....a good post Dar Sahib.
ReplyDeleteAlso we admire those writers who can make their readers to imagine the whole scenario under only provided circumstances which are given by writer.
And so they both are involved indirectly with one another one given the circumstances the other making a story out of it.
But there are that kind of writers who can make you feel at your ease. LIke you are reading yourself. LIke that's what was in your mind but you couldn't put it in writing because you couldn't find suitable words at that time. But someone has done for you and you feel free.
This sense of freedom if we get by reading any writer are the most admired one.
hmm...so nice to read you after long time.
Dar Sb
ReplyDeleteAn excellent explanation of the term” Literature”, Surely Literature can not a mere monologue rather a universal phenomenon, each and every reader share his /her own conscience and aesthetics in finding new dimensions of the ideas initiated by the writer, thus taking shape of a collective effort. How you defined the literature on the basis of the conscience levels of the readers and writer is very nice.
Thinking thanks for the valuable input.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peerless, if literature does not reflect a collective conscience then it is merely an ornament and as dead as a cemetery.
ReplyDelete..a precise and beautiful account on 'Literature'.
ReplyDeleteSir I like your pic very much.. It has been taken artistically. :)
Komal
ReplyDeleteJust thrilled to see your avatar, name and comment surfacing once again. Thanks a lot for sharing your views, and no thanks would be sufficient for parsing the picture :)
What a mirror your perfect description of Literature/Art at it's best. Even more so than anything I've yet read on the topic - especially as Mirror is a repeating metaphor for me in what I'm writing and is actually in my working title now for some years. :)
ReplyDeleteMy friend Connie we all are mirror for each other and when you often use this analogy, you actually are discovering yourself.
ReplyDeleteYes, so true...what is it we do to block this kind of mirror (some more than others - but who knows for sure expect Allah?)
ReplyDeleteYou will answer this question well - I know.:)
Connie the answer is the new post :)
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