NEIL GAIMAN SOBRE POR QUÉ LAS HISTORIAS PERDURAN

Amplia charla de Gaiman sobre la evolución de las historias en el tiempo, algo que es uno de los temas centrales de Sandman.

Entre otras cosas, hace una perfecta defensa de la literatura "escapista" y su función en la vida real:

We [writers] decry too easily what we do, as being kind of trivial — the creation of stories as being a trivial thing. But the magic of escapist fiction … is that it can actually offer you a genuine escape from a bad place and, in the process of escaping, it can furnish you with armor, with knowledge, with weapons, with tools you can take back into your life to help make it better… It’s a real escape — and when you come back, you come back better-armed than when you left.

The reason why story is so important to us is because it’s actually this thing that we have been using since the dawn of humanity to become more than just one person… Stories are ways that we communicate important things, but … stories maybe really are genuinely symbiotic organisms that we live with, that allow human beings to advance.