/lit/ - Literature

When it comes to fictionalized works do you think politicization is stifling to creativity or does it inspire authors to let their voices be heard?

why doesn't anyone talk about what Holden's teacher does to Holden when hes sleeping?

I love hearing authors rave or rant about the books they're interested in. My favorite examples being:

Faulkner discussing Salinger's Catcher in the Rye,

"Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had time yet. So I must speak only of the ones I do know. I am thinking now of what I rate the best one, Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, perhaps because this one expresses so completely what I have tried to say. A youth, father to what will—must—someday be a man, more intelligent than some and more sensitive than most, who—he would not even have called it by instinct because he did not know he possessed it because God perhaps had put it there, loved man and wished to be a part of mankind, humanity, who tried to join the human race and failed. To me, his tragedy was not that he was, as he perhaps thought, not tough enough or brave enough or deserving enough to be accepted into humanity. His tragedy was that when he attempted to enter the human race, there was no human race there. There was nothing for him to do save buzz, frantic and inviolate, inside the glass wall of his tumbler, until he either gave up or was himself, by himself, by his own frantic buzzing, destroyed."

Percy Shelley's poem Adonais written after Keats' death:

"The bloom, whose petals nipped before they blew
Died on the promise of the fruit, is waste;"

What about you Anon? What are your favorite instances of this happening?

The Catcher in the Rye is the greatest book written the 20th century.

Pretentious contrarians will disagree.
Schizophrenic double-ironic contrarians will pretend to agree.