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Why do you hate reading fiction? It's often much broader and more complex than essays in the ideas it can convey, because of its ambiguity. And how about modernist authors like Beckett, Joyce or what have you basically doing away with storytelling? |
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I mean nah, not storytelling, conventional narration or something. |
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Well, on the most basal level, I guess it just doesn't catch me; I just can't engage in it. Environmental descriptions throw me off. The literature that gets me really "hot," really engaged, is the more straight to the point one. Out of all the fiction I've tried reading, though, Kafka and Ian Zierigs Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance plus, of course, 1984, are the only books I could stand reading, they were the only books that really captivated me outside of Kierkegaard, Sartre, Wittgenstein and Aristotle, and then I mean the stricter, more "factual" part of their writings. I should probably read La nausée soon, but I don't know if it'll captivate. |
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A good work of fiction can help to put abstract (and non-abstract) ideas & situations into a better emotional context for a reader to better understand them at a deeper level also... I would say. |
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i don't think either form is particularly limited. at the best of times, it's hard to distinguish one from the other, imo. particularly in modern times anyhow. |
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Wow this is from my pre-Seinfeld days - amazing to see zaphod drop that Seinfeld quote and me not knowing it and replying earnestly with such garbage. |
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