Literary: To Be Or To Die

If put it in the past, the proposition is even all impossible, but it has been discussed worldwide now: Whether literature will end or not. Paying a little attention to its results, we find it is important that it expresses that literature has already had some symptoms and problems. What's wrong with it? We do see those problems and then there comes speculation and mistrust—will literature disappear in our generation or maybe in the future generation?At first, it is of paramount importance to think over whether literature will end or not. Early in the 19th century, Hegel had declared that art would die, but after more than one hundred years, we can still enjoy the happiness that art brings to us and even find the type and pattern of it are enriched. But as Hegel expected, our art is not their art, and art form is no longer the one previously familiar. Will literature experience a process which is transformed from simple to rich and from one pattern to another? Are we psychologically well prepared to this transformation? Will the newly transformative forms of literature still be called "Literature"? The answer is essential to the question whether literature will end or not. Objectively it will not end, but in the various subjective conceptions, perhaps it has been already dead in those hackneyed minds.Yu Hong's suggestion is that literature disappears, but literariness permeates through our life. It seems reasonable, but we can see that the literariness still has its clear edge in the society. Yu Hong attributes all the characteristics of aesthetic of...