Sergio Jimenez Foronda |
Logroño, (EFE).- The writer Espido Freire has told EFE that “literature has always been a transformative element, even from the moment it was transmitted orally and there was no way to fix it in writing”, since that “has served to convey moral attitudes, such as those of fairy tales.”
Freire (Bilbao, 1974), Planeta Prize 1999, gives this Saturday the conference “The past is a prologue: literature as a transforming element”, in the La Rioja monastery of Yuso in San Millán de la Cogolla, with which the workshops are closed of creative writing organized by the University of La Rioja, within the Campus Valle de la Lengua project.
Literature, he continued, “has served to establish, in many aspects, what is permitted and what is intolerable. So, many times, when talking about literature, we forget that we are talking about one of the essential elements of culture and the formation of humanity as such, along with art and science”.
Literary creation
“More than 20 years ago I formulated a pedagogical methodology for literary creation, which took elements from literary theory, comparative literature, the history of literature and creation from other disciplines, such as music”, has underlined.
He has indicated that the refinement of this methodology occurs because, “over the course of 20 years, there have been introductions and changes, as a faster and more superficial type of communication begins to be implemented through social networks”, and that, in the long term, it influences the literature.
“Now we are incorporating the elements of artificial intelligence, which will also affect creation”, he has indicated, but, “starting from that base, what I have done over the next 20 years has been to constantly demystify everything that that surrounds literary creation”.
Freire has pointed out that “a large part of the publishing industry is not looking for anything literary, but mainly entertainment, evasion and knowledge, not so much a literary issue of fiction as the novel can be”.