I hadn’t realized until today in class that all we read is
depressing and dark, all the stories so far have been this way. Even the “humors”
Drunkard was very depressing because
of the way it talks about alcoholism. I strongly think that all literary
fiction is dark, depressing and violent, or at least has a dark, depressing or
violent part of it. This is because literary fiction exposes the world. Commercial
fiction stories are the ones with happy endings and happy people where nothing
really happens. Literary fiction is about the real world, and the real world is
not a happy place. Yes, there are many happy things about the world but there
are also many depressing things that take over literary fiction. If more good
things happened in our world, authors would talk about it, but that’s not the
way it is. You read literary fiction because you want to think, if everything were
perfect everything would be boring to read. Also, if real life were like commercial
fiction we would no longer find it fun to read because they wouldn’t be
anything special, it would be just like real life. However, people find the joy
in actual reality because it is so harsh and in some cases inspiring.
I wrote about the same topic for my blog this week. I'm not very good at wording my thoughts sometimes but you did it beautifully. I completely agree that almost all if not all of literary fiction is going to be dark because human nature in general is dark. As I was writing my own blog I couldn't help but think of all the bad there is in the world and how literary fiction exposes the flaws of society. I was kind of confused with your last few comments. You think commercial fiction wouldn't be interesting if it were reality but you do think that literary fiction is interesting even though it is reality? Hopefully that question makes sense...
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