The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
“Great literary pieces are great because, among other things, they are in permanent polemics with their readers, some of whom are writers, and who are able to themselves express creatively their sense of this literary affair. Great literary pieces have that specific magical quality of provoking readers to rewrite them, to make a new literary project out of them.”
Dubravka Ugrešić