To Know the Value

Who will coordinate these values ​​it how to make these values, and in turn achieve coordination? For human beings who will create an interpretation system, it is also applicable to both the good deeds they apply to evil, and both apply to the intolerable things apply to things it can tolerate? These good deeds and evil, intolerable things and things can endure in today is differentiated. Who will be human to say clearly what is truly melancholy, things that can not be tolerated, what is only partially scratch the skin of things? Who will the anger toward the most terrible things but not the more recent things? Who would have successfully transferred to an understanding in place beyond the boundaries of his experience? Who let a narrow-minded, stubborn people strongly feel the joy and sorrow of others distant, felt he never experience the various aspects or deceived by an understanding of it? Propaganda, repression, scientifically proven - all this is useless. Fortunately, in our world does exist such an instrument! This means is art, and this means is literature.

They can work miracles: they are able to overcome the kind of harmful characteristics, that is, only to learn from personal experience, the results of the experience of others from him after futile. When the rest of his short life on Earth, Art put an alien life-long experience of all components, together with all its burden, the color, the life force from one person to another person ; flesh on it again to create an unknown experience, and it allows us to have it as our own things.

And more than that, far more than that. As equivalent to the passing of the centuries long time, whether national or entire continents repeat each other's mistakes. In this way, people will think that this is how obvious ah! But it is not the case, some countries have experienced things considered and abandoned, suddenly other countries arrived in news. Here is the case, the only alternative to that is an experience we never experienced art is literature. Art and literature has a wonderful talent: they are able to exceed the difference between the language, customs, social structure and convey the life of an entire nation to another nation. Convey a sustained many decades of harsh national honed to an inexperienced national, or even be able to make an entire nation walked free from an unnecessary or wrong, or even the course of the disaster, so that the history of mankind to avoid detours.

Today, I urgently from the rostrum of the Nobel to remind you, is the art of this great and noble nature.

And literature but also the direction of another priceless convey incontrovertible condensed experience, that is, from generation to generation. So that it becomes a living memory of the nation, so that it holds within itself and ignited her historical fire already spent, saved and used to ignite the fire in this historical form, from deformity and low ruined. Literature is in this way, with language to protect the soul of a nation.

(There has been a kind of fashion statement, that should eliminate the differences between the various ethnic groups, different nations should disappear in the melting furnace of contemporary civilization, I do not agree with this view, but the discussion of it is another question here it is appropriate to make the following statement, that the disappearance of the nation, just as all people are a kind of face has a personality, will also enable us barren. nation is the wealth of mankind is mankind's collective personality, the most insignificant nation also has a special color, and have the intention of God within itself a special aspect.)

But the literature of a nation if the interference by the powers to be disturbed, and that is too bad, because it is not just "print free" violations, but also of the national mind off the national memory hit pieces. This nation will no longer pay attention to its own, it has been deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite reports that there is a common language, but fellow citizens suddenly no longer understand each other up. Generation after generation of silent people grow old, die, can never even yourself have not talked about, do not talk to each other, not descendants conversation. When they spend their lives in like Akhmatova and Zanga Pavilion - buried alive state - this doomed until death to be creative, but never heard a response to their work in silence, then This is not just a personal tragedy, but the entire nation to a sad, a danger of the whole nation. In addition, in some cases, an when due to the silence, so that the entire history no longer be understood by the whole - it is the whole human kind of dangerous.