wriitng and censorship

[cacian]

should the two correlate or disengage?

in other words
is the writer/ reader partnership compromised when censorship is the hub of the writers success?
or is it reinforced because it is about breaking the rule and not admitting the good?

[nick mcglue]

How exactly is censorship the "hub of the writers success"?

[PeterL]

In an ideal world there would be no censorship, but in this other than ideal world there has been (and is) censorship in many times and places. Working within the constraints of censorship sometimes makes an author write better, so that the content is uncompromised, while it still has the appearance of fitting within the restraints. Some great literature has been written under censorship; I am thinking particularly of Jonathan Swift, but censorship has been in place everywhere until quite recently, so you can look at any older literature to see how authors worked around it. But both author and reader were aware of the restrictions, so it may have enhanced the relationship between the two.

[Mohammad Ahmad]

I limitedly think yes because when censorship is the success hub of the writer, both reader and writer will be in a parallel point but this isn't always useful one likes this others not, I think it is useful only in scientific publications, for literature I think not

[fleamailman]

("...if one pulls one's punches then reader then sees it coming and the impact is diminished..." ventured the goblin veering to a modest breaking of the norms or writing boundaries, then adding "...thus a type of self censorship has most impact where one occasionally mixes in the crude the rude and the nude if only to impress upon the reader that it isn't family reading unless it was meant to be family reading then...", at which point the goblin then wondered if anyone sane ever read this far, asking "...you haven't read this far have you, no, oh good, so now you may think yourself sane if you like...")