The granting of an award created an unusual situation. Those who give are obliged to believe that its decision is optimal. Those who accept are obliged to believe that they deserve. These questionable assumptions are even more doubtful if the prize is not awarded an activity whose merit can be measured more or less objective, such as sports or science, but the domain of culture, art and thought.
When I think of literature, in toil endlessly diverse adventure with language to tell stories and convey the profound knowledge that I I anchored, committed throughout my life as a moral and conscious, I think of a wide range of values \u200b\u200bthat are actually targets or models with which I judge my personal and literary activities.
In a sense, the empirical or factual literature is the sum of all written and taken by literature. In another sense, the ideal, the literature is the sum of everything that improves and increases the need for literary activity. Imagine literature as a utopia ... a place where prevailing most exalted models, almost inaccessible. This is my utopia. Here are the models that infer or I think that support the company's literature.
One literary activities (writing, reading, education) are an ideal vocation, a privilege rather than a simple profession, that is attached to the common notions of success and financial incentive. Literature is, first, one of the key ways to nurture awareness.
Two. Literature is an arena of individual achievements, individual merit. This implies that no awards and honors are awarded to the writer because it represents, say, weak or marginalized communities. This implies not make use of literature or of literary prizes for purposes other than support it: for example, feminism (I speak as a feminist). This implies that rewards are distributed to writers as a means of consecutive pay tribute to the diversity of national identities.
Three. Literature is a cosmopolitan. The great writers are part of world literature. Should read through national and tribal borders: the great literature should be transported.
Four. The standards of excellence literature, within the literature in all languages \u200b\u200band in the entire range of world literature, is a cardinal lesson about reality and the desirability of a world that is still irreducibly plural, diverse and varied.
is possible to exhibit what we call models in a more forceful (and perhaps more controversial) and dislikes, and negative. So, to state otherwise what I say
despise One mercenary values.
Two. Aversion to make instrumental use of the writers, for example, conclude the authors mainly as representatives of communities that are marginalized imagine, to demonstrate their support.
Three. Wary of cultural philistinism is concealed to the implementation of democratic values \u200b\u200bin literature. Permanent distrust nationalist claims and tribal loyalties.
Four. Antagonism Eternal Forces repression and censorship.
These are indeed utopian values. Have not been met. But even literature embodies. Even encourage writers. Even the real feed readers. And that's what holds all major literary prize. For these values \u200b\u200bI am honored that the Prince of Asturias Foundation has chosen me as one of the winners of this distinguished award.
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