În apărarea ficțiunii
Un eseu foarte frumos al lui Zadie Smith despre puterea și frumusețea ficțiunii, despre limbaj, despre lumile și contradicțiile care populează mintea unui scriitor.
Fiction suspected that there is far more to people than what they choose to make manifest. Fiction wondered what likeness between selves might even mean, given the profound mystery of consciousness itself, which so many other disciplines—most notably philosophy—have probed for millennia without reaching any definitive conclusions. Fiction was suspicious of any theory of the self that app