Why a good book is a secret door

Why a good book is a secret door


非常有趣的演講。
Mac Barnett引導聽眾進入各種形式創作的虛幻和想像空間。
他引用了Pablo Picasso的話"We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth or at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
他解釋truth和lies的交會地帶，就是art的小小空間，也可稱之為fiction或wonder。
即為Coleridge所說的 the willing suspension of disbelief or poetic faith。
我們明知書中的角色並非是真實的，
但是我卻對他們有著真實的情感。
小孩往往比大人更能進入文學的想像之門。
Mac Barnett分享的故事，充滿了童真，
他的創作
"Billy Twitters and his Blue Whale Problem"
http://www.amazon.com/Billy-Twitters-Blue-Whale-Problem/dp/0786849584
也成功達到literary fiction的目標，
引發孩童的好奇心，
閱讀，
並心中相信藍鯨的存在。
很感人的分享。