Της φωτιάς το κάλεσμα

Vincent van Gogh, Blossoming Almond Branch in a Glass, 1888

Του Νίκου Τσούλια

 

      Της …φωτιάς πλάσματα είμαστε. Ναι οι πιο μακρινές απαρχές μας, η πρώτιστη καταγωγή μας είναι απ’ αυτήν. Όλα τα υλικά μας γεννήθηκαν εκεί μακριά στα άστρα πριν από δισεκατομμύρια χρόνια. Μπορεί τα υλικά μας να μην είναι ούτε καν από ένα και μόνο άστρο αλλά από περισσότερα. Είμαστε γεννοβολήματα των άστρων και του ουρανού, της αστερόσκονης!

100 Novels All Kids Should Read Before Leaving High School

Josh Jones, 12.11.2015

 

Last year, a Slate essay called “Against YA” by Ruth Graham irked thousands of readers who took offense at her argument that although grown-ups “brandish their copies of teen novels with pride…. [a]dults should feel embarrassed about reading literature written for children.” Whether we label her article an instance of shaming, trolling, or just the expression of a not-especially consequential, “fuddy-duddy opinion,” what it also served to highlight—as so many other thoughtful and not-so-thoughtful online essays have done—is the huge sales numbers of so-called YA, a literary boom that shows no signs of slowing. Young adult fiction, along with children’s books in general, saw double digit growth in 2014, a phenomenon in part driven by those supposedly self-infantilizing adults Graham faults.