Wednesday, October 16, 2024

do we actually need meaning?

As the second year of my university course proceeds, new subjects come along. One of them is “Interpretation of the literary works.” On the very top of our reading list, what I found quite puckish was Susan Sontag's “Against Interpretation.” What a way to start this class, right? But I like that, and I liked the essay too. A few days after finishing it, a quote from one of Andrei Tarkovsky's interviews came across my Tumblr feed:

And to be all fair, it pretty much summarises the entire essay.