Where is literature heading?

Question

will today's pulp fiction become tommorow's classics? or is literature dead as a door nail in an guatanomo prison cell. Give me the answers, arrggghh!! please sweetie.

Answer 1

it has been crippled by ignorant people who want to read nothing but crap. there are a few good writers who are still around though. you just have to look at them. and i think the pop writers, like dan brown and nicholas sparks, will be forgotten in ten years and replaced by new ones, but people who actually care about books will carry on the new classics. check out Marquez, Morrison, and the most modern one Eugenides. They are largely ignored by the mainstream, except when oprah talks about them, but 50 years from now people will still be reading their books, because of the depth and meaning behind them. and they all have pulitzers or nobels to prove it.

Answer 2

There are still some excellent writers today who put their hearts into their fiction. The problem today is that our society is so concerned with making sure we read crap from a foreign country just because it's foreign so the good stuff becomes ignored. Literature is not dead, but it's pretty much all been written before. To find a fresh, new idea in a novel is unique. That's what makes something like "The DaVinci Code" so intriguing to us all. It's well written and full of new ideas. I think that television and films have contributed to the degredation of fiction. Before the advent of those things writers and readers had much longer attention spans therefore more thought could go into writing and reading. People weren't looking for instant gratification when they read. They had the time to sit and digest a work of fiction like a Dickens novel or a poem by Thoreau. Now we only read those things because we have to in a literature class and don't put much thought into interpretation. Even the language of writing now is simpler as are the forms. Our brains can't wrap themselves around the "hard" stuff. I hope that literature is not dead. I still manage to find some excellent books to read.

Answer 3

Literature is heading in the multiple directions of mankind's aspirations.The parallel relationship which the art of literature shares with the vagaries of human experience has compelled the ever widening character of literary engagement.
Literature is well alive as long as man lives.The basic features of a classic are never compromised;if pulp fiction meets the requirements,then we are certain of a tomorrow that will bring the best of literature to our doorsteps!
Anything to the contrary can never escape detection.

Answer 4

The problem with today´s literature is that it puts its form in front of its contents and meaning. This might be as well the cause of most of our sufferings, for good literature is just like an open window (oxygen) for the mind. You ask "where is literature heading for?" but I think you should have asked "is it there any literature at all in today´s world?" For my money it is not the way you say something but the contents thereof (this is what I call oxygen).

Answer 5

They are all heading to the movies. All the really good books that i have ever read are now being turned into shltty movies. Dam n that Hollywood. Dream Catcher by Steven King, was a terrific book, and then Hollywood got ahold of it and turned into complete Shlt. And no they arent going to be classics. I dont think that there is a good Classic book.

Answer 6

It seems to be mainly mystery, romance, some political intrigue. How I'd like to read someone with a mastery of imagery, like Wilde or Attanasio in the mainstream. Any recommendations?

Answer 7

I can't see any of the plethora of mysteries, which seem to be all that's being churned out today, becoming classics.