Why Read Literature?
Nothing teaches us better than literature to see, in ethnic and cultural differences, the richness of the human patrimony, and to prize those differences as manifestation humanity's multi-faceted creativity. Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure, of course; but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, on our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in a relationship that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
The bond that literature establishes among human beings compels them to enter into dialogue. The bond also makes them conscious of a common origin and a common goal to exceed all temporal barriers. Literature transports us in to the past and links us to those who in the past eras plotted, enjoyed, and dreamed through texts such as The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison that have come down to us, those text......
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