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Letters


Letters


Literature is Vital • Passion For Peace! • The Thinker & The Thoughts • Formulating Science • Culture & Its Changes • Which Love, Anyway?


Literature is Vital


Dear Editor: I’d like to make four brief, interconnected points on ‘Plato versus Literature’ in Issue 161.


Firstly, mimesis [art copying life] is less (if at all) a ‘representation’ than it is a re-presentation of reality from a distinctive human perspective. The two are not the same. In merely mimicking reality the former would not serve much of a purpose; it would, indeed, be a needless, inferior re-rendering of the original.


Secondly, in re-presenting, literature is less a mimic than a commentary – a perspective on life, not a re-rendering of it.


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