Post by account_disabled on Dec 7, 2023 5:24:24 GMT 1
I have written several times that I don't appreciate literary genres. They are narrative cages. They are regulated by laws, even strict ones, and the laws are restrictive for me. The writer is free, he cannot be subjected to constraints of any kind. His writing must be free, it cannot be caged in a container that does not breathe. Because a literary genre is precisely this: a closed box, without the possibility of communication with the outside world. Sometimes there are contaminations, leaks of narrative liquid that pollute a genre and give rise to a genetic mutation that creates a new genre.
And the cycle repeats. Superiority of the Fantastic The genre beyond narrative genres. I already wrote some time ago about how I consider the Fantastic to be superior to other genres , perhaps precisely because it contains them all and none. Perhaps because it is precisely in the Fantastic that the writer can demonstrate his abilities. Personal Phone Number Dataopinion, obviously. Narrative genres do not exist If you think about it, I think so. In your opinion, is there a genre for pictorial works? No, there is an artistic movement, but it is a different concept. In music, however, there are genres. Could it have been done without it? As a total inexperienced person in music, I'm inclined to say no.
But in writing is it really necessary to ascribe a work to a specific genre? Even the historical novel is considered such only by virtue of the author's birth. Bernard Cornwell's novels are historical because the author is current, but if he had written about Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic period, those would have been war novels. Is Dracula a horror novel? No, it's a gothic novel actually. Another narrative genre. It's also an epistolary novel, but that's about the structure of the story. It was written in 1897 and set in 1890: another “current” story.
And the cycle repeats. Superiority of the Fantastic The genre beyond narrative genres. I already wrote some time ago about how I consider the Fantastic to be superior to other genres , perhaps precisely because it contains them all and none. Perhaps because it is precisely in the Fantastic that the writer can demonstrate his abilities. Personal Phone Number Dataopinion, obviously. Narrative genres do not exist If you think about it, I think so. In your opinion, is there a genre for pictorial works? No, there is an artistic movement, but it is a different concept. In music, however, there are genres. Could it have been done without it? As a total inexperienced person in music, I'm inclined to say no.
But in writing is it really necessary to ascribe a work to a specific genre? Even the historical novel is considered such only by virtue of the author's birth. Bernard Cornwell's novels are historical because the author is current, but if he had written about Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic period, those would have been war novels. Is Dracula a horror novel? No, it's a gothic novel actually. Another narrative genre. It's also an epistolary novel, but that's about the structure of the story. It was written in 1897 and set in 1890: another “current” story.