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If an author wrote a book bitching about a schoolmate and the book is praised and awarded because critics see the story as a metaphor critiquing the pros and cons of the american empire.... would it matter the authors only intentions was to bitch about some kid?
There's an entire industry and acedmy trying to read into stories more than they should.
I suspect most authors play along because they're profiting from it.
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Every year the same books are analized thousands of times.
Of course they cant make sense.
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What's wrong with some finding profound truth where others can only see petty bickering?
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>>9435609
>profound truth
>biased political reading of a nonpolitical work
>profound
>truth
Stop being a fag
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Man, Dante's Divine Comedy is just bitching after bitching. Good ol' Dante kept inserting his enemies in the novel and described them being tortured, suffering, saying bullshit etc..
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>>9435640
If we stick with the narrow example in op sure, but much of literary analysis is based around universal themes. In fact even, political analyses can usually be subsumed within broader ideas of power, struggle, loyalty, betrayal, etc. Who cares if the author only meant to write about his classmate? Are you so incapable of extrapolating from that experience and finding something bigger to empathize with? If so, you may have picked the wrong hobby.
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