/lit/ - Literature

What's the point in reading fiction?

I guess I just don't get it. Everybody seems to hold fiction in very high regard, and people who read a lot of fiction are generally thought of as intellectuals. But it seems to me that its just a bunch of stuff that happens. It's not like you learn all that much by reading it, and I don't really understand how it's objectively so much greater than a movie or TV show in terms of telling a story, except perhaps in length. People go do things and maybe learn something about humanity while feeling emotions.

So what do you get out of it? Just pleasure? If that's the case, I don't see how it's different from any other hedonistic activity.

What am I missing?

>Implying there is any difference between camus and sartre

>mfw there isn't one

middle class is now lower class

deal with it, commoners.