Can be argued for different topics, but when it comes to the meaning of literature in modern society, you can talk about this for a long time, each time revealing amazing conclusions.

We are living in the era of computerization, television and high technology. One press of a key, and you can easily find all the information you are interested in, however, no technical devices can replace people with pleasant hours of communication with books.

Books are our wonderful and faithful friends who can enrich our inner world dispel anxieties, doubts and resentment. For some, it is much easier to watch a movie based on a book of interest, but there may not be interesting, funny and witty expressions that you would like, remember, laugh at and make you think.

Most of all fiction is devoted to man. Her calling is to help us understand what each of us should value in life, in friends and loved ones.

How do people read today?

Employees of the Public Opinion Foundation conducted a survey, the purpose of which was to find out how people relate to literature today. If we summarize the data obtained, we can say that the structure of leisure for recent decades has changed dramatically, and reading books occupies a less prominent place in it, but there is a reading public, and today it has received the opportunity for a wider and more accessible selection of books, which cannot but rejoice.

If we talk about the results of the study, then in relation to reading, the situation is not very favorable, but the experts spoke quite optimistically: “there is less reading, but today they read more meaningfully and seriously.”

Half of the respondents have several dozen publications of fiction at home, and only 4% have no books at all at home.

Half-divided were the responses of those who read for Last year and those who haven't read it.

If we talk about literary and genre preferences, then the most popular is modern domestic literature- 22%, followed by modern foreign literature 9%, domestic classics- 8%, and foreign classics and Soviet literature - 4%.

About the benefits of reading

The benefits of books are obvious. This is a unique opportunity to broaden your horizons, enrich your inner world, become smarter and train your memory. It is also useful to read books because:

    Reading increases the vocabulary of a person, allows you to more clearly formulate your thoughts.

    Logical thinking develops, the ability to analyze the information received from books, watching the heroes of books, we learn the basics of psychology.

    If you have a depressed mood, the book is an excellent medicine that will help overcome sadness and sadness and take your mind off problems for a while.

What book can be called "good" and useful to read? Firstly, the book should interest and captivate you, and secondly, it should carry a deep meaning, and not be superficial.

If you have not read the books of the school curriculum, then we advise you to start with them. Classic literature domestic and foreign writers, captivating and interesting. pay attention to historical literature: wars, intrigues, fateful decisions and love - all this is not only informative, but also exciting.

Of course, reading the poetry of great authors can be called useful. In works written in verse, there is pain, love, disappointment, joy, comedy and tragedy. In addition to aesthetic pleasure, poetry can enrich our speech with beautiful turns.

should not be ignored and contemporary literature, of course, it is not as full of talents as in the old days, but among our contemporaries there are authors whose books are worthy and interesting.

Is poetry necessary? modern man?

A person cannot only sleep, eat and work. It is poetry, and indeed art in general, that instills in people a sense of harmony and beauty. Poetry is able to awaken high feelings in people, forcing them to think, engage in self-development, study and work.

If we consider the necessity of poetry from the point of view of personal relationships, then we will come to the conclusion that here we cannot do without it. How nice it is to write poems to your beloved or beloved, to say beautifully and romantically about feelings that overwhelm your soul. Sometimes it's nice to read the works of other authors, experiencing all the emotions embedded in the poems. Definitely, poetry will never become obsolete.

When you are gloomy and not happy about anything,

Picking up a book in the evening is wonderful,

For all people and joy and joy.

Appreciate everything that happened before,

All dots of thought will become a dot.

Like nothing happened

Poetic lines are pleasing to the heart.

Who needs literature today?

Don't let the empty halls of the libraries fool you. A few decades ago, going into the library at any moment, we could see the queue. Today, the book industry is so developed that it is quite possible to buy and read any book without leaving home.

Today, libraries do not play the role of a kind of information provider, but rather act as social institutions whose mission is to unite people and educate them. Increasingly, various literary cafes, children's rooms with educational toys and books, literary and theatrical circles, as well as studios are opening at libraries, where teenagers, under the guidance of teachers, do their homework, prepare for intellectual olympiads, competitions and city events.

As said great writer and the poet Maxim Gorky: “Love a book, it will make your life easier, it will friendly help you sort out the colorful and stormy confusion of thoughts, feelings, events, it will teach you to respect a person and yourself, it inspires the world and heart with a feeling of love for the world, for a person” .

Each person comes into contact with the world of fiction even in early childhood. Without reading skills, we listened to fairy tales from the mouths of our parents. It is the fairy tale that plays the role of the first step on the way of becoming a reader. Then, having familiarized himself with the alphabet, the child independently begins to reproduce the text of his favorite works, remembered from early childhood.

Becoming a reader

As a person grows older, more “adult” becomes and fiction which he is reading. Once, having plunged into the world of works of art, a person becomes its hostage for life. And there is nothing wrong with that, on the contrary, reading literary works elevates a person, opens the way to the world of wisdom and knowledge.

Literature and the reader have gone through a long period on the way of their formation. Originating in ancient times, literature was able to withstand competition from new trends in art - television and cinema, and today is the most important art form.

Literature, fiction and non-fiction

Fiction is one of the varieties of art. It is closely interconnected with other types of art - theatre, cinema, music, fine arts. It is works of art that are the basis for the development of these arts.

Fiction covers such genre types as epic, lyrics, drama, lyrical epic.

As we have already understood, next to fiction there is also non-fiction. What is non-fiction? To do this, it is enough to remember the first book you read on your own - a primer. It is the primer that is the first representative of non-fiction literature in human life.

Non-fiction is educational literature, with the help of which we learn the basics of science. IN school age- these are textbooks of mathematics, grammar, biology, physics, in a more adult - scientific articles, works of famous scientists, based on which we acquire a profession.

The role of fiction in human life

Thanks to works of art a person, first of all, begins his formation as a person: we begin to understand what the difference between good and evil is, how relationships occur in society, what is the inner world of people.

Thanks to such works of art as epics, epics and myths, we get acquainted with the historical past of the people, their centuries old traditions. The touching world of poetic lyrics teaches us to fully reveal our feelings, not to be afraid to express love for our Motherland.

Reading works with the motifs of mysticism, we go on an exciting journey together with mysterious heroes, in which together with them we reveal the mysteries of the world around us.

But one should not assume that fiction loses its relevance for a mature personality. On the life path a person encounters many obstacles, the overcoming of which often occurs due to the guidance of the truths that are laid down by the authors in fiction. Such works accompany a person all his life - from infancy to old age.

The reformatting of culture also leads to the fact that literature goes into the background, and we can hardly predict how distant it is. Undoubtedly, they read less - and I think that the proportion of literature as such will change. Just like literature itself. Something is happening to her too: I remember how 30 years ago I first saw a comic book, a luxurious novel about mice. I looked at it in bewilderment, and my artist friend called it the books of the future. I snorted, but she was right. Our channels of perception are expanding, they are changing the direction of their work. Human creativity, of course, will remain, only a person will not write books. But in the drawings, as we know, a whole culture has grown.

Where there is contact between several arts, something new grows. When we saw the first films of Fellini, we realized that this is not cinema, but something else. Apparently, everything will be different. Wildly interesting! Please note that if 40 years ago science fiction was the main genre and we read Bradbury, now science fiction is of little interest: we live in the time that science fiction writers of the 20th century projected for us.

So I really want to record what is happening. I've been writing all my life notebooks. In recent years, these self-reports have become more interesting to me. I don't remember much anymore and can hardly remember what happened last week. Life is so intense and fast that there is not enough memory: I am not Dima Bykov. It even feels like I can't catch up with my own life.

Background: as a student of the philological faculty, I conducted a survey among classmates regarding literature: their preferences and volumes of what they read over the past year. In 80% of cases, they blatantly lied to me in order to seem smarter, more educated, etc.

Today, reading has become a trend, which means things are bad. It is very difficult to choose a worthy book, because second-rate novels lie on the shelves with bestsellers, ratings are filled with rubbish, acquaintances are read out as dummies.

The book becomes something of an accessory. Readers for some reason think that they are doing something out of the ordinary.

In fact, reading has never been an indicator of the mind. Mind cannot be acquired, it is developed. If there is nothing to develop, you just need to be a good person.

If we separate the wheat from the chaff, then everything is simple - the book, as at all times, can serve as a source of information, but the information is so hidden by the plot and metaphors that not everyone can figure out what the salt is. Fiction shows us the history of mankind in all its splendor.

Why not a movie? There are a huge number of books that are more exciting than the newest films (especially cinematography has been more upsetting lately).

And finally: all archetypes, plots, conflicts, compositions were born in world literature, therefore, knowledge of this literature makes you an educated person: both the director and the astrophysicist should quote Milton, Bocaccio and Chekhov.

Andreeva Vera

Twenty first century. The age of computers, interactive systems and virtual reality. Do modern people need books? My answer is yes. Every person needs books, because in the cycle modern life we worry about school, work, whether our phone is charged, and completely forget about our soul, which also needs solitude and recharging. Books are a one of a kind spiritual healer that can heal our spirit as well as positive emotions. A person grows both intellectually and morally by reading.

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Twenty first century. The age of computers, interactive systems and virtual reality. Do modern people need books? My answer is yes. Every person needs books, because in the cycle of modern life we ​​worry about school, work, whether our phone is charged, and completely forget about our soul, which also needs solitude and recharging. Books are a one of a kind spiritual healer that can heal our spirit as well as positive emotions. A person grows both intellectually and morally by reading. For me, each book I read is a life lived, after which I gain experience and become wiser. Some simply do not understand the value of literature and everything in it. While reading, I learned to understand human nature, what is hidden in it, the motivation of certain actions of people. And most importantly, I learned not to judge people without knowing their stories.

You can't judge a book by its cover. Books are the same people, and, as the Strugatsky brothers wrote, among them are “kind and honest, wise, knowing a lot, as well as frivolous empty shells, skeptics, crazy people, murderers, children, dull preachers, self-satisfied fools and half-hoarse screamers with sore eyes ". As for me, literature is my everything: mentor, friend, passion. She taught me only good and bright things, opened my eyes to many things, taught me to love the word, according to Mayakovsky, "the commander of human strength."

Literature is an art, and like any art, it has its own names that made it famous. In my own way, I respect every writer who has contributed to the development of literature, but I especially highlight a few names and works from everything I have read so far. Yes, my love psychological novels grew into a love for the works of Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. With full confidence I can call him our contemporary, unlike some other classics, because everything he wrote is relevant to this day. I admire his style and experience aesthetic pleasure from reading. Dostoevsky is a connoisseur of the Russian soul, I am surprised every time how it is possible to describe human feelings and emotions that are hidden very deeply so accurately and accurately.

No less important and favorite work for me is the story-parable written by Richard Bach, "A Seagull named Jonathan Livingston".A sermon on self-improvement and self-sacrifice, a manifesto of boundless spiritual freedom. Spiritual freedom is what I would like to have in this life. This book is the cry of the soul of every person who understands this world at least a little. For me, Jonathan Livingston is the embodiment of the ideal of a strong, independent person who loves life in all its manifestations. Rereading this book, each time I discover something new that fills me, frees me and gives me strength for further accomplishments. Books are supposed to do just that - inspire. Literature inspires me to good deeds, love for people, gives me hope for a better outcome of events and teaches me to understand people.

The concept of true love I was given Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre. The most fantastic thing about it is not the love story itself, but the fact that the essence of any relationship lies in the ability to forgive and accept a person as he is, along with his past and his demons. Few people know how to truly forgive, the sediment from betrayal still remains in us and crawls out to the surface in the future. The strength lies in forgiveness. Re-reading this novel, I understand everything every time more essence words of forgiveness.

A mini-manifesto of love and vivid human feelings for me is the allegorical fairy tale story by Antoine de Saint-Exupery " Little Prince". A story about how important it is to keep a child in oneself and not to freeze in one's soul. Even the biggest epic novels can't tell you the vital content of this little book.“The most important thing is what you can’t see with your eyes ...”, said the Little Prince. Feelings are something that will always be higher and clearer than any spoken words.

Literature is mine small world, where you can hide from all the storms of life, and books are my friends who will always reassure, never betray, inspire hope. Even the great Anton Pavlovich Chekhov said:Everything in a person should be beautiful: the face, and clothes, and the soul, and thoughts ... ". Literary works help us in this, making us beautiful on the inside, and if a person is beautiful on the inside, he is charming on the outside - this is an unchanging truth of life, the same as the boomerang law. Reading books, a person retires, finds time for reflection. Just don't confuse loneliness and. Loneliness for mepsychological, mental, solitude is physical. The first numbs, the second calms. Solitude leads to harmony with oneself, with one's mind, thoughts and feelings. Books help us in this, making us better, instructing us and reassuring us. When I read, I take a break from the daily routine, I can forget about everyday problems for a while and just enjoy reading. Literature is the best human invention that has ever existed.

Fiction opens before us the unknown world of human relationships, makes it possible to more consciously understand the essence of human personality, to figure out how this or that situation, which seems to be a dead end problem, will be resolved. This is a special kind of art that reflects and emphasizes the essence of all eras, gives us pleasant hours while reading, teaches morality, makes us more morally stable, and, of course, raises our cultural level.

A truly educated person must certainly be familiar with the main works in literature, drawing his own conclusions from the books he has read, which are of great value in the formation and development of personality.

Literature is designed to serve the people, it reveals the problems of past years, describes events and people who lived in the past, tells what thoughts and actions they were endowed with. Great importance He has the accuracy and truthfulness with which the present times are conveyed, giving a person the opportunity in his imagination to draw a picture of the future life.

With all our hearts we are imbued with fate literary heroes, we observe with sincere emotion the course of events, and we are very upset when we learn the ending is not quite the way we would like. Then the mind begins to reason why the situation was resolved in this way, why did the hero act this way and not otherwise? Did he have another way out?

From generation to generation, with the help of literary works, knowledge was carefully preserved, the truth was revealed. Books are intended to be a source of wisdom, a true guide in human life, and also to play an educational role, being our mentors and teachers.

Through the study of literature, I understood many things that are not possible without reading the great works. I will definitely draw my own conclusions after reading the work. And also I always ask myself what morality I managed to extract from the book I read, and what it managed to change in me for the better.

Literature in the most honest way expands our horizons, endows us with a large vocabulary, which is important when communicating with people in order to form a justified and deservedly worthy impression of a person who knows how to competently, clearly, in some cases eloquently express himself, correctly forming thoughts into words.

Some writers teach us through humor, describing incidents in a funny way, exposing human soul and revealing vices. Others instill in us love for the world around us, the beauties of nature, and urge us to treat it with care. Still others describe terrible events, military operations, interspersed with stories from human life, the fourth, in their usual manner, are trying to answer the question about the meaning of earthly existence.

It is likely that the writer once experienced serious mental anguish and, through a story, short story, play or novel, sought to convey to us his emotions and experience. This is also the case with poetry, studying which we come to an understanding of what the author experienced at the time of writing, how he looked at the world, and what it was like. internal state. We are subconsciously imbued with pain, joy, anxieties and experiences of the great classics of literature.

I would really like to see as many new authors as possible who have a high-quality outlook on life, are talented, have avant-garde thinking and a decent manner of presentation. Increasingly, on the shelves of bookstores you can find works by modern writers, whose books just flipping through, you understand that they are not written at the proper level, difficult to read and litter literature in its highest sense.