"The
writer takes up the world as is, totally raw, stinking, and
quotidian, and presents it to free people on a foundation of
freedom... It is not enough to grant the writer the freedom to say
whatever he pleases! He must address a public that has the freedom to
change everything, which implies, beyond the suppression of social
classes, the abolition of all dictatorship, the perpetual renewal of
categories, and the continual reversal of every order, as soon as it
starts to ossify. In a word, literature is essentially the
subjectivity of a society in permanent revolution." Jean-Paul
Sartre, Qu'est-ce que la litterature? (Paris: Gallimard "Folio
Essais") 162-163.
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