The long-lasting tradition of print has established certain patterns of comprehension. Although literature is still and probably for a long time will be considered high-brow art, it is also a business based on profit and sales. Ever since the Gutenberg press came into being literature started to sell itself to wider and wider circles of people until it gained status of mass product. Literature is commodity. As Pierre Bourdieu asks in The Field of Cultural Production “Who is the true producer of the value of the work – the painter or the dealer, the writer or the publisher, the playwright or the theatre manager?” ( Bourdieu, 76 ).
My personal place for literary research. Място за лични наблюдения, анализи, умотворения и моментни състояния, свързани с книги, които чета. Блог за литература.