My future as a writer?

sa wrote:
I do not know if anybody would call it an ambition if I say I want to
become a writer. But certainly it is an ambition in my opinion. But my
aim is not creating great poetry but writing novels. Fact and fiction
combine to create something totally different. What I mean to suggest
is that a writer shold also be a reformer of his society.'

JL replied:

Perhaps only if the writer feels that his art, his writing, needs a bit more macho justification, he is not just an artist he is a "reformer"!

Iirc both Hemmingway and Picasso struggled with this idea of making art socially relevant and the artist something more than a social parasite existing off the sufferance of the ruling class & bourgeoisie mediocrity.

Personally, i have always done the decorative much more easily than the 'relevant' ..... in my case i have neither the stamina nor the enthusiasm to be a 'reformer' preferring instead more the role of the 'decorator'.

"Lets get a little more color in that socialist realism shall we? and could we have the suffering masses move a bit upstage? don't block the handsome young hero's of the revolution...... 'Sondhiem! ...send in the clowns!'"
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Mr. Joseph Littleshoes Esq.

Domine, dirige nos.
Let the games begin!
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