I think we need literature to live. This is because the relationships in the real capitalist society have inhuman coercive power. We desperately need stories with warm hearts and dreams.
It's okay to live in a dark world and suffer from material poverty, but you can't live without love, so I want there to be at least some love even in the world of novels (art in general).
My friend and I once watched a movie about Egon Schiele, a 20th century European painter. Picasso seems to have done the same thing, but I couldn't accept the moral idea that he could change his female models one after another, and that even if the female models suffered from jealousy and were ruined, he could remain calm and think that it was inevitable for his own art.
I was of the opinion that real life was more important than art, but my friend was of the opinion that women who become models should be prepared for this to happen before accepting a modeling job.
My friend says that's what it means to love an artist, and that his partner should also be devoted to art. Literature is also an art, so does marriage with a specific person necessarily have to be at the top of the priority list?
Haruki Murakami believed that in order to keep the family from falling apart, there was a need to compromise (in other words, marriage was a compromise).
