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The world is reflected not only by the mass media in their news coverage, which is clearly ideologically profiled, so that promises about public service media resemble pre-election promises. Science and art also reflect the world. It turned out that even these two «media» are actually part of the big mass ones: science that is not in the media, doesn't even exist, not to mention arts: the media also determine the price of paintings and the bestseller status of books. It is obviously connected with the struggle for power, which is total and includes naturally also the sphere of sciences and arts. But, after all, this connection is not immediate: art, if it wants to remain art, retains something of its independence from power and money, from politics and ideology, even if it intervenes in them, because it must inevitably be their transcendent part. Of course, this also applies to belles lettres, fiction. However, its importance today – compared to the recent and distant past – has fallen catastrophically. Belles lettres no longer serves so powerfully as a source of sustenance, it does not have such social authority, literature is no longer feared by the political power, as it was before in totalitarian systems. Nevertheless, literature should seek and find human identity in various fields, including national and language one. People are divided into two categories: some still maintain the old, perhaps now outdated, character of art as something ambivalent, ambiguous, where hyperbole, litotes, irony, self-irony, grotesque, absurd work side by side, where there is no unambiguousness which the others do like. Because unambiguity is the death of art.
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