Sorry, but do I need to be Humble? Kundera is quite wrong, I do not need to be humble about it. His dialogue with thousands (cough, as Paulo Coelho does) means nothing. And do you really think, the only place I talk about literature is this board and that discussing a handfull of names (probally less names than I have discussed) and here would give streangth to my arguments?Quote:
Originally Posted by Heteronym
I am quite humble, Kundera is allowed to discuss with me. He may use his powerfull dialogue to reach me. I am quite open to his explanations. And from where I am anti-intellectual?
As novel and verse... novel, romance, etc, can be in verse. The words are not set on stone, Orlando Furioso is often called a novel, Aurora Leigh too. All in verse. And in this sense, Dom Quixote does not make the distinction between prose and poetry, when they call them novelas.
Prose in literature definide as everyday talking is insane. Cicer himself once sent a letter to a friend and said to his friend not to find strange that he was not using his daily form of discuss, but something more simple. I would point, there is several forms of prose which are not the daily form of talking, even realistic romances would be ridiculous (nobody makes silence when you talk) and talking in verse would not be less or more ridicuous than talking like captain Ahab?
