Not only Literature

The association between reading and literature is almost implicit in the social imaginary that is, when it comes to reading instantly imagine many great works of love, novels or stories; extensive impossible and the hardness of a brick works. Without denying the aesthetic virtues of literature and its importance; It is a reality that not all people have sufficient literacy to enjoy literature. There are other creative possibilities to enjoy and entertain themselves by reading. You can not say that only literature is read and not fall into the hype that everything is read.
Intellectuals critics, teachers of letters rant against the best sellers and self-help titles, a radical and categorical position of the authorities in the matter against what they see as the greatest expression of mediocrity and deception unsuspecting consumers books . Judges sentence them as it should be read and not only that, but also that way "read dictionary, slowly, repeat several times reading, good position, etc." For many of these deans of letters his talent and skill with the pen has become his own arrogance although many of their positions are based on rationality.
I am not against literature as radical intellectuals are against what they consider what it is not. Unquestionably are charged an ingenious works of artistic sense and a high intellectual level why many have passed the filter of time to become classics, it is wonderful that an individual subjective experience becomes an important experience for a group. Critical arguments intellectualists many prestigious writers who have decided their high cultural level rationality and order to be read.
Criticism of the various writers is a necessary law, review, review what arguments is valid and important has a training however can not lose the decision to read what we generate curiosity only by the opinion of an expert in literature.
Moreover I think that reading has several levels of difficulty, meaning it varied levels of understanding; ie, semantic and syntactic complexity, length, etc. A reader must know your "reading level" and start practicing train ie, read. Therefore a beginner reader can start reading short and "easy" texts and with the passage of time and personal interests difficulty increase.
It is questionable whether the higher reading levels greater economic development and progress country and why people who enjoy reading and other non Is a personal matter, family, educational, cultural, geographical or political? More importantly it Should be instructed to read and reading activity is a kind of sect that needs a pastor or ordering guide to read?
Non-literary readings can support the daily life of people without this necessarily mean an economic benefit. Is an athlete who wants to deepen their training technique or methodology is not well for competition simply because I want to understand better what you do and enjoy. A musician who wants to know theory of harmony or a car aficionado who wants to know about mechanics not necessarily because it's their job but simple taste.
As in music the unsuccessful fight between classical music and popular. There should be a battle between literature and texts that are not considered as such. Overall in the arts it is given a battle really define what is beautiful and what is not. What is good literature, good music, good painting, good dancing, good theater. As an example the criticism that makes contemporary art more than art for many eccentricities are sold for millions of dollars or besteseller criticized many of which are judged by their mediocrity even generate millions of dollars in sales. indifferent quality of these books there is the question Why do you like so much? What is its value? What generated the readers? Should they stigmatize the readers of such books? You do handle its bad reputation? Is lack of culture of the reader?
The art of today generates musicians who do not play their instruments on stage actors who look like they do not act, the facilities then destroy exposure or books with absurd stories that surprise more idiocy that creativity, praising the sleaze and vulgarity. Thus the speed and dynamism of our societies not only leads to the obsolescence of information and knowledge but also to the transience of art.
Zygtmun about Bauman in his ingenious and profitable theory of liquid modernity makes a critique of everyday consumer and not as a form of buy to accumulate but to buy for throwing away.
According to Bauman modernity promises infinite happiness but on the way to her need to consume products and services to stay one step closer to that destination. But happiness is a dead on arrival but there will always be products that promise us to be closer to her and be a millimeter.
That same promise has been given to reading as it is considered that with her greater knowledge greater progress, development and welfare greater and therefore more happiness and acquire more knowledge. And as the promise describes Bauman and to the disappointment of many happiness is a journey of many stations but no arrival there will always be a book that will provide knowledge that promises to approach this utopia of happiness, a new theory, thesis, postulate , innovation and development. There will always be a question, a problem.
Whether from an economic perspective, political, educational, no one denies the importance of reading and that action is often exaggerated view of how training activity, indoctrinating, emancipatory, humanizing, satisfying and enjoyable. But reading is also a subversive action that alters the mental order and structure of thought and not only form but deforms and imaginary representations of the world. Reading can not only be pleasant but annoying, pushy, intrusive and confronts an experience that reinforces and destroys the knowledge of the reader.
The most important thing at the time of reading is to enjoy reading, indifferent whether it is literature or other, to enjoy reading must be understood and to understand it you have to love her, but love reading is necessary to read all our intelligence and our senses. Furthermore readers have the right to read whatever they want as they want, wherever they want and how they please also have the responsibility to generate criteria to select what they read. That judgment and taste is developed with the deliberate practice of it.
Reading is an encounter with intimacy. Indifferent if literature or anything else, each reading is different and each individual it is also why it is necessary to be invaded by the rich content have the books since the permit is an opportunity to develop sensitivity.
Explore other readings and are not literary is to explore new areas of knowledge without falling into academic and political discourse on knowledge, only read so that we like more what we like, to enjoy the world itself and cultivate potential or not at all in space only by doing so.
The famous activist and educator Paulo Freire once wrote "Nobody educates himself or anyone else educates, education is a relationship between people and the world." In this sense I can say that no one is formed as a reader one way or another as a reader, the reader is given training in their relationship with others, with himself and with the world. Through such training readers become more demanding with books and can distinguish between works of higher quality, creativity and informative. In conclusion it is important that the reader is aware of what you read and is formed to transcend their experience, taste and relationship with the texts. To be aware of your reading activity whether it is active (constant reading time) or passive (sporadic reading) reflect on their reading and purposes.