BGM: 中谷美紀 - Superstar
Today I worked late. This morning, I read Nobuhiko Kobayashi's journal in 1960s (小林信彦『1960年代日記』.) I found that he has really strict policy in his mind, which enables him to criticize various things/events in this world. Yes, he is really serious and honest.
I was born in 1975 therefore I can't see how the 60s could be. All I can draw in my mind is basically the imaginative pictures of that era this kind of books has taught to me. So this book is a good document for me to learn the past incidents. A really "vivid" document.
By reading this book, I thought of the two genres in literature in Japan. The one is the "pure literature (純文学)," which suggests us that there must be various "artistic" ones. The other is the "entertainment (大衆文学)," which means they can work as funny/interesting ones which let us forget the boring time. Indeed, I have not read Kobayashi's works enough. But, I guess Kobayashi has tried to go/come across that difference between "pure literature" and "entertainment".
During reading this Kobayashi's book, I enjoyed Motown bangers. I remember - once I disliked Motown. I couldn't accept/enjoy that kind of music because I had thought they must be too "commercial". But now, I can enjoy them. I also can accept them as a great beautiful achievement. Really sweet and soulful (I won't hesitate to say that Motown is artistic.) I can use this logic to explain my opinion about literature. In short, good works come/go beyond that wall of the difference between art and entertainment (in my words, it must be "pop" for me.)
This evening, I noticed that an user from Discord gave me a message. "Where is your goal?" He(?) asked to me so. Why do I write my journal? How do I want to be? They are really difficult questions for me to answer, but, if I try to explain the issue about my goal, I say that I never have any ultimate goal in the future. I just keep on writing, and try to achieve every day's tiny creation. Maybe that kind of tiny quest I do every day would lead me to go somewhere nice.
