Writing is a very old discipline, so our contemporary literature bases on a nearly infinite tradition. There are a lot of ancient and antique sources, which are still used for creating stories as amalgamation of classical ideas and modern reflections on prevailing societies.
Whether the great Greeks, like Homer or Hesiod, with their mythological narrations about the godfather Zeus and his Olympian Empire, the famous Italians Petrarca and Dante, Spanish Cervantes, at some remote period a British poet named Shakespeare, later Germans like Goethe and Schiller, Balzac and Hugo in France, the Russian Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky etc. – the legacy is gigantic.
In respect to that, literature is a magnific field not only to conserve dynamic cultures, it is one of the oldest arts and ways to reveal, express human feelings and conditions of human life on an elaborate level and with the effort of our most important acquirement – the speech.
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