During the lesson we talked about literature and language. We started trying to say why literary and no-literary texts are different. Somebody said they are different because they have different aims, but first of all their styles are different.

Literary language is rather remote from everyday's. The words used in literary texts transform reality.
A literary text has a life of its  own. It means that it can be related with the writer's life and experiences but they don't coincide.

We later  tried to discover when a text is a classic.

A text is a classic not when it is very old but when it always tells something new to every generation of readers.

Art transforms people's vision of the world. It follows that art transforms culture (a crossroads of codes) and distinguish itself from ordinary language. This is the reason why dictatorships always persecuted art and imposed their own language: art transform stable visions of the world and avoids conformism.

New words:

• to quote: citare
• quotation: citazione
• to pay homage: portare rispetto
• device: congegno
• goods: merci
• to be fed up: essere seccato
• taboo: tabù
• almost: quasi
• to be packed with: essere pieni di
• to be aware of: essere consapevoli di
• to make somebody aware of: rendere qualcuno consapevole di
• to think of: pensare a qualcosa di definito
• to think about: pensare a qualcosa di astratto
• catch-phrase: frase che cattura l'attenzione