Reflections on Literature as a Minor Art

Reflections on Literature as a Minor Art

I am setting down the following melancholy reflections not with any hope of a remedy, but because the matter is important and nobody else seems to be

saying it. In many ways literature has, in this century, become a minor art, more important than pottery or weaving, perhaps less important than block-printing or other graphics. Firstly, it is no longer an art of either the mass-audience or an elite audience…

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