Why Literature?

Authors :: Llosa, Mario Vargas
Source :: New Republic. 05/14/2001, Vol. 224 Issue 20, p31-36. 6p.
Publication Year :: 2001
Abstract: Focuses on the author's views that the reading of literature has become a dispensable activity, used primarily as an entertainment for those with leisure time. Statement that literature has become an increasingly female activity; Opinion that literature is an experience of learning about human nature; Comments on Microsoft Corp.'s founder Bill Gates' goal of putting an end to paper and books.