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Abstract Literature (Based on a true story)
What is abstract literature? Of all the new arts, abstract literature is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to write well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for meaning, and that you be a true poet. It’s a bewildering time for the contemporary reader. Abstract literature is a mystery, certainly, but it can also be an electrifying experience for any reader.
When you see words that are boldly applied to a blank paper with confidence and authority, by the likes of Erik Blagsvedt; Patrick Lichty, AG Davis or by the founder of Abstract Literature movement, David Quiles Guilló, it doesn’t matter that you don’t ‘understand’ what they mean. In fact, what it means fades into the background because the work speaks. It reads out and touches you personally. It may not do the same for your partner or best friend. But that is the beauty of any art. It is your own personal relationship with an abstract literature text that is what matters; it is an intimate and private affair.
We have an emotional response to the work that often we can’t explain. And it doesn’t need explaining. What one is drawn to in abstract literature is often inexplicable, sometimes complex, and always deeply personal. Our love for a abstract literature novel is an intimate affair, which is why we long to own one of the limited print editions so we can live with it- touch it, re-read it again and again, and have it as our own. When a book contains abstract texts, there are endless reasons for our attraction.
Abstract literature is a genre based on abstraction. It does not aim to reproduce anything. It is almost non-objective. Instead of depicting what we recognise in the world of objects, people and nature, abstract literature is concerned with rhythm, words, context, form, and texture. It is not reality-based but emotionally-based. It is expressive and gestural. When an author writes abstract literature, they are driven to express what they think, see and feel. And because no two writers think, see or feel in the same way, we have a broad spectrum of presentations. Couple that with the reader and alchemy takes place. The emotion in the abstract literature synergises with the evoked emotion of the reader and voilá, you love the words, hate them, or remain cold and distant. When reading the work, you may feel dreamy, or hyper tense, float with a buttery pattern, or grow dizzy in a geometric structure. Clean lines, word drips, swathes of written color, loaded pages, arched books, holes in the pages, towering monoliths of brass or tiny boxes described in grids; the range of literature abstraction is near infinite.
