Literature, Art and Content

There are writers that are important to me. There is Chekhov based on whose life I wanted to be a physician-writer, then there is Kafka and there is Lovecraft. There are other writers who have been important in my life, one of them be JK Rowling, more would be Arthur Conan Doyle, Philip K. Dick and George Orwell. Then there are comic book writers like Frank Miller and Alan Moore. When I wanted to write transgressive fiction I took inspiration from Chuck Palahniuk. Taking inspirations from writers helped me, and I must say, immensely. But the age of writers, actual writers, has ended. What we have today, are propagandists. I wanted to be a writer and not propagandist, so it is the end for me as a writer. Though I will keep my blogs alive just because I love writing. Writer's create characters. Conan Doyle created Sherlock Holmes, Rowling created Severus Snape, Alan Moore created Constantine and so a lot of writers have created characters that we know and love. Writers also create settings and atmosphere. Like Rowling created the warm atmosphere of Hogwarts, Conan Doyle created Victorian era London and Lovecraft created a nihilistic yet mesmerizing world with the Great Old Ones. In Kafka's world, there was an invisible bureaucracy that made life for his characters difficult and you grow up and realise, that it is in fact true. Both Chekhov and Kafka died of tuberculosis and quite young. Conan Doyle, with all the scientific accumen Sherlock Holmes had, later started believing in spirits and afterlife. Orwell wrote 1984 in 1949, and looking at the world of today that was one hell of a prophetic writing, if at all it was actually fiction. Characters like Constantine excite me, but what excites me more is the comparision between aesthetics of books of Rudyard Kipling and the depression of stories by Mulk Raj Anand. History is a fun little subject. In the end however there is ofcourse the great unknown, but then there is the great known too, if only it could be confirmed, the great known. Life was slow and peaceful just two decades back. It's not anymore. Books have become useless because once you read quite a few of them, you realise that they are nothing but subjective experiences and opinions, and sometimes empiricism. It makes no difference to people who read and write though, because it is a habit to them and of course a pleasure.