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Ceci est un poème
absolument accessible.
Il n’y a rien
dans ce poème
qui soit en aucune
manière difficile
à comprendre.
Tous les mots
sont simples &
vont droit au but.
Il n’y a pas de
nouveau concept, pas
de théorie, pas
d’idée déroutante.
Ce poème n’a
aucune prétention
intellectuelle. Il
est purement affectif.
Il exprime pleinement
les sentiments de
l’auteur : mes sentiments,
moi qui vous parle
maintenant.

– Charles Bernstein in French translation by Abigail Lang here.

Morten Søndergaard og Knud Brix

på et bjerg i Italien

Although I haven’t read anyone who has been explicit about why some people turn to literature during a crisis, I suspect that implicit in these literary resurrections is an understanding that “the news” and “facts” are impersonal, and even when they are advertised as personal, they fill a slot, the “heart-warming story,” for example—half a minute on an adorable toddler waving through the glass at Grandpa, or a noble nurse on “the front lines,” or the sweet young woman who carries groceries for the old lady next door. They are intended as a momentary lift for reader or viewer “at home.” The emotional manipulation is calculated. When it is good, literature moves the personal into other territory altogether and in the process becomes collective.

– Siri Hustvedt on Fairy Tales and Facts at Lit Hub [via Føljteton]

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