Post by account_disabled on Jan 2, 2024 5:18:29 GMT
When I read a novel, I just want to pass my time in an enjoyable way. Nothing more. I also read novels to delve deeper into a literary genre, I read them to fill youthful gaps in the classics, to improve my English with children's books, but in all cases I want to be entertained by those stories . Perhaps we need to keep the two halves of us who write separate: understanding how we see fiction as readers and how we see it as writers. For my part, however, I don't think I can make this split, because as a reader and an author I have the same tastes and the same motivations. What are stories for? ... if I need to show, to convey something that would be difficult or reductive to say in another way, only through narrative do I have the possibility of placing the reader in the right context capable of transmitting that sensation there.
Salvatore maintains that a story must not convey information – and we agree, fiction is not journalism – but "communicate a certain state of mind, a certain type of information that would not reach the recipient in the correct way". This means everything and means nothing. For me, fiction must convey emotions , but not by the author's will, but rather thanks to the reader's reception. What do I mean? That when I write I'm not interested in transmitting anything - except in a story that came to mind Special Data following an event a few days ago: in that case I'll send a message, but I'll probably never write that novel - I'm not interested in using my stories to communicate moods. My future readers will read what they want. As a reader, I am not interested in the moods that the author wants to communicate to me, I am interested in the story, I am interested in the characters and how they react to carry it forward. They affect my emotions, if I feel any, when I read. So what is the role of narrative? Man has always loved telling stories, ever since he lived in caves.
By illustrating the walls of those first forms of habitation, he wanted to communicate something to others. But what? The world he saw. Since then I don't think much has changed, in fact I think nothing has changed. We continue to illustrate the walls of our caves, we do it differently and with other tools and other means of diffusion, but we communicate, exactly like our troglodyte ancestors, the world we see. The role of fiction – if fiction has one, because I'm not at all dark about it – the role of fiction is to tell the world through the eyes of the writer . Communicate his vision of him, what he represents for the writer. Stories, then, have a dual function, that of the author who created them, because they are a more or less clear picture of the reality he experiences, and that of the reader who reads them, because he derives benefit, reflection, even annoyance from them. , but still gets an emotion from it.
Salvatore maintains that a story must not convey information – and we agree, fiction is not journalism – but "communicate a certain state of mind, a certain type of information that would not reach the recipient in the correct way". This means everything and means nothing. For me, fiction must convey emotions , but not by the author's will, but rather thanks to the reader's reception. What do I mean? That when I write I'm not interested in transmitting anything - except in a story that came to mind Special Data following an event a few days ago: in that case I'll send a message, but I'll probably never write that novel - I'm not interested in using my stories to communicate moods. My future readers will read what they want. As a reader, I am not interested in the moods that the author wants to communicate to me, I am interested in the story, I am interested in the characters and how they react to carry it forward. They affect my emotions, if I feel any, when I read. So what is the role of narrative? Man has always loved telling stories, ever since he lived in caves.
By illustrating the walls of those first forms of habitation, he wanted to communicate something to others. But what? The world he saw. Since then I don't think much has changed, in fact I think nothing has changed. We continue to illustrate the walls of our caves, we do it differently and with other tools and other means of diffusion, but we communicate, exactly like our troglodyte ancestors, the world we see. The role of fiction – if fiction has one, because I'm not at all dark about it – the role of fiction is to tell the world through the eyes of the writer . Communicate his vision of him, what he represents for the writer. Stories, then, have a dual function, that of the author who created them, because they are a more or less clear picture of the reality he experiences, and that of the reader who reads them, because he derives benefit, reflection, even annoyance from them. , but still gets an emotion from it.