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Problems organized by the European Committee on Human Rights Morais 696- 697.
7. The Relation between Biography and Literature
The life experience of the author, more or less, influences his work of literature. Many studies are conducted to reveal the relationship between the author’s
life experience and the life of the character in his literary work. Perrine in her book Literature: Structure, Sound, and Sense argues that human life begins when God
breathes life into a handful of dust and created Adam. Fictional life begins when an author breathes life into his characters and makes us believe into their reality, so that
there is a tight relationship between the author and his work Perrine 71. In accordance with Perrine, Hudson explains the relation between biographies
of the authors with their works of literature. According to Hudson, one creates a work of literature based on several reasons, those are the desires for self-expression,
the interest in people and their doings, the interest in the world of reality in which he lives and the world of imagination that he conjures into existence, and his love of
form as form. People are strongly motivated to tell others about what they think and feel. We are also intensely interested in men and women, their lives, motives,
passions, and relationships. In other case, people are fond of telling others about the things we have seen or imagined, or take a special satisfaction in the mere shaping of
expression into forms of beauty. Man is a social animal that by nature he is unable to keep his experiences, observations, ideas, emotions, and fancies to himself. As the
consequences, various forms of literature are made to fulfill the desire to share them 11-12.
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We care for literature primarily on account of its deep and lasting human significance. A great book grows directly out of life; in reading it, we are
brought into large, close, and fresh relations with life; and in that fact lies the final explanation of its power. Literature is a vital record of what men have
seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspect of it which have the most immediate and enduring interest
for all of us. It is thus fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language Hudson 10.
Hudson further elaborates the importance of knowing the author’s personal
life in order to get better understanding about his literary work. Biography provides the information needed to dig the personal life of the author. Through the biography,
readers are able to study the author’s living environment, his daily life, his ambitions, struggles, successes, and failures 22. Having studied his personal life, readers may
able to see the relationship of his personal life with his literary work.
C. Theoretical Review
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