/lit/ - Literature

>>8937127
>What does this have to do with the aesthetic value of the works though?
Because CIA's choices weren't motivated by aesthetic values, but by political skirmishes. I consider this practical monopolisation of art unfair to what might have been. Since I consider abstract art aesthetically displeasing/less pleasing than many other forms of art, I think that a lesser form has been promoted and a great injustice has happened.
I'm not going to diss any artist that is encouraged by monetary means to do the best he can, as the renaissance painters were, since they were adviced rightly to create the most aesthetically pleasing, awe-inspiring and touching pieces of art they could.
They would promote reality to art

>>8322774
Which part in especially, or which ideas give it that feel?

>>8322788
But there's great humour in an absurd tragedy isn't there? I just read through Kafka's shorts and found many of them rather funny. Not in a laugh-loudly kind of funny, but in a way that makes you grin, since the context is so horrible.
Like in a Roy Andersson or Aki Kaurismäki film, you know?

Art is the things that I consider enjoyable and which I consider having artistic merit

>>8262788
Cultural importance and setting the scene, especially the one from Under the North Star

'Alussa oli suo, kuokka ja Jussi', is the most famous phrase in all finnish literature, maybe only rivaled by the ending of the Unknown Soldier, 'Aika velikultia.'
It gives you the idea of a nothingess, a time before time, of which Jussi will transform the swamp into a field with the mattock and hard work. He builds his houses and farms the cold and hard ground with little results, but he endures and eventually becomes the patriarch of the Koskela family, which will endure the civil war, the winter war and the continuation war.
But as time passes, faces come and go, we can always remember where it all started, what it was started with and who started everything - from a swamp, with a mattock and it was Jussi

Two clips so you get the idea of the milieau and so on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfzTdANR3yE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L-j2K3w0i8