Openness is the key to literary growth: Vivek Rai

September 20, 2014 06:03 pm | Updated 06:03 pm IST - MANGALORE

Advocating openness as the key to literary growth, two Kannada scholars observed here on Saturday that one has to see literature as an expression of experiences rather than binding it to a theory.

Literature should not be a thesis, declared writer and Kannada scholar B.A. Vivek Rai, while convener of Kannada Advisory Board of (Central) Sahitya Akademi and critic Narahalli Balasubramanya observed tha literature could not happen if one attempts to bind it to a theory.

They were speaking at the one-day symposium on new harvest in Kannada literature organised by the Sahitya Akademi in association with Besant Women’s College here.

Mr. Rai said writer K. Purnachandra Tejaswi could capture the complexities of modern life without ever attempting to bind them to a thesis.

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