Why do we need Nobel Prize in Literature?

Some people who like reading always don't understand why all social ruling groups, whether savage emperors, cunning capital groups or power groups, have to support literature.

From court poets to power carolers, from the history of temple poetry to the history of capitalist entrepreneurship, what is loaded with beautiful literature?

Literature is an unintentional creation in the evolution of human culture. Whether it is a love song or a mysterious legend, at first it may be the self-entertainment of a crazy and silly poet in the ethnic group, or it may be the deliberate creation of a wise man to win everyone's favor-from labor songs to self-mutilation, it sounds so touching, and literature therefore has aesthetic value.

It can neither be used as food and clothing, nor as a weapon to defeat powerful enemies. However, literature has gone beyond utility and become another unity-no matter where you live or which ethnic group you live in, you will be curious about a myth and cry for a sad song. Some people lose their heads because they read banned books, and some people are laughed at because they read a poem?

In the shadow of some power, literature still can't be erased-the green hills can't be covered, after all, it flows east? The emperor's throne turned to dust, and the imperial prison turned to dirt, but literature can never be covered, often passing through the fog of time and becoming the light of eternal life.

This utilitarian transcendence of literature has greatly envied the power groups of past dynasties, and the history of power writing will be revised by time-but literature never succumbs to power, and finally stands on the cusp of time, silently showing its pride.

This makes those power groups very envious-so they try their best to devote themselves to literature, and they support poets and writers out of this wonderful imagination. Ironically, once nurtured by any kind of power, it won the glory at that time, but it often can't stand the weathering of time. The earliest literature to be erased is often the kind that sings an ode to power and gives beauty to dark history.

Literature that pursues truth, goodness and beauty is an ideal literature-it carries the best ethical and aesthetic values in the human process.

A tree takes root, germinates, blooms and bears fruit, which is a way to realize value transmission and ethnic reproduction, but growing leaves is another functional requirement-photosynthesis enables it to obtain energy from the universe and realize its own reproduction and evolution.

The growth and evolution of a tree can be compared with that of human beings: on the one hand, we strengthen our bodies to reproduce for the needs of biological evolution, on the other hand, we naturally contribute cultural values and aesthetic factors. The formation of human society has achieved racial reproduction and evolution, but the contribution to art has given human cultural heritage and aesthetic needs.

What is certain is that the value of literature will live and die with mankind.

It is not the ethics of a political group or the value system of a capital group that can communicate with the world beyond human groups and spread among different human groups. "Apple" can rule a person's mind through capital operation, and Hitler can incite a person's emotions with racial theory, but Tolstoy has made hundreds of millions of readers of different colors and countries lament at the same time with Anna Lenina, who does not exist in the world?

One day, "Apple" became the past tense of the business empire, and Hitler's racial theory no longer worked, but Tolstoy's works exuded new brilliance.

Literature has the value beyond time and space, but also abandons value prejudice and racial opposition. Literature does not depend on political groups or capital groups, so literature has the significance of world unity-this is the transmission of idealism.

There are always some people in the world who will think about such things: it has nothing to do with personal treatment, racial prejudice, and the current hot and cold society? These excellent people think of things beyond real time and space-such as taking responsibility for human destiny.

Nobel is a man who left a will after his death and set up prizes with all his property-no matter which country, nationality or region you are, you can get them. The premise is: you must be a leader in your field.

The Nobel Prize includes both humanities projects and scientific projects-we can regard it as a symbol of human ideal: the development of science and technology symbolizes the material significance of human development and evolution; The development of humanities symbolizes the spiritual significance of human development and evolution.

Nobel himself is a scientist and a capitalist-but he doesn't think that capital and science alone can make human life better; There are also humanities, such as literature, which are responsible for the fate of mankind.

Literature is obviously different from science, philosophy and history: it has the particularity of being close to anyone. You don't have to know theology, you can feel the charm of literature as long as you read the Bible. You may not know physics, but you can feel a poem describing the fall of an apple. You may not know history, but reading Homer's epic, you will feel the charm of literature.

This is enviable: all capital groups and powerful rulers envy the affinity of literature, so they raise royal poets and writers, in order to let them write their own ode and historical records beyond time and space in this affinity way-those writers and poets who are willing to be raised also hold this beautiful expectation.

Of course, the result is absurd: these captured documents often disappear in an instant, leaving no trace.

It is the literature that pursues truth, goodness and beauty that has the value beyond time and space-this is the meaning of Nobel Prize in Literature: it tries to select the best literature in the world and let those living writers win this honor. For these writers, there is only one requirement-you bear the thinking of human destiny and you bear the highest aesthetic value of contemporary literature.

Nobel Prize in Literature is an ideal.

Since18th century, printing has been highly developed. Mankind experienced a difficult era of writing and recording, and finally won an era of easy writing and communication. But this is not entirely the gospel of mankind. To some extent, it may also be a disaster for mankind.

Nowadays, in the vast information dissemination, it is difficult for readers to choose a pleasing book to read. No one has more energy to filter out noisy information.