Imagining of Literature

Ever since “Homo Ludens” we are comfortable to think humans as accustomed to playing. Playing is one of the most complicated activities. And the play is a tradition with long historical roots in shaping the mankind thinking. Nowadays we naturally link plays with theatre and the physical activity called playing with sports. The idea that there is infusion between sport and theatre or the acting/playing co-relation is not new at all and it descents directly from ancient times when amphitheatres held both plays and athletic events. One of the most influential (at least for me) and one of the most popular point of view regarding the theme is in one of Roland Barthes’ essays in Mythologies - the opening one and one of the most significance,  called “The world of wrestling”( Actually the essay first  appeared in Esprit). In a very punctuating, very exact manner the French structuralist managed to outline the similarities between acting and playing. One of the important conclusions...