On Reading Philip Roth
Reading Philip Roth's essay: A confidence in his ideas, in his conception of the world of his novels. In his identity despite the opposition he faced for his books. Maybe it is this backlash to his work that refined his sensibility, to know exactly what he meant in his words, to be precise in his voyeurisms.
Orwell's urgency to make an idea explicit, to expose in his essay titled Why I write?
Defence of the word by Eduardo Galeano is a call for admiting what is going on in our part of the world and taking responsibility for it. He see writing as, above all, a tool to engage meaningful with the world and its facets.
Take the cold bath bravely, Dubois tells his daughter. To get in touch with the real values of life. To be uncomfortable and find meaning in that, to grow and expand one's horizons.