
First Draft - Best of 2021 Ben Okri
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Does Literature Have an Obligation to Teach?
Do you feel like literature has an obligation to teach or have some kind of lesson in it? No, absolutely not. Nothing happens if the piece of writing we read in does not make us imagine and see that which we have not seen before. The imagination is woken by n unlikely and sometimes unfamiliar things. And that's, as the secret poet of what good writing does, even if it's about your own very neighborhood,. You suddenly see the familiar world in a new way.
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