Pupysheva A PIN-18-1 Reading with Imagination The article under the headline "Reading with Imagination" is written by Lily Tuck, the author of five novels, two short story collections and a biography an American novelist and short story writer. The article is dated the 15 of April 2015 and published in American online-newspaper The New York Times. This source is credible due to the fact that it has been the standard of quality news for more than 160 years. The purpose of this author's article is to inform the reader about the importance of "appropriate" reading of literature. Lily Tuck begins her article with Jean-Paul Sartre's reasoning about what literature is, where it says that reading is a pact of generosity between author and reader. "Reading is predicated on personal concerns and experiences and there is no such thing as a totally objective reader", Sartre noted. So this is not about different textual interpretations, but about the approach to the act of reading. In the Middle Ages, reading was regarded as a contemplative act, as something sacred. However, now it is quite an ordinary act in order to obtain the necessary information or for entertainment. The author believes that reading in such cases is a “bad” practice. The distinction between literary works and non-literary works has become very blurred. Literature does not have a single definition and is not just an “imaginative” writing. Fiction, which, according to Lily Tuck, suffers the most, is not factual. "Fiction is a creative act" that should be read with imagination. Therefore, he writes his "minimalistic" works with the hope that they, too, will be read with imagination. Wolfgang Iser writes that the book should transform the reader, refute his theories and thoughts, forcing him to take a fresh look at them. The power of imagination is boundless and amazing, and literature is its language. The main topic of the article, in my opinion, is the act of reading in today's world. People treat reading as an ordinary process of finding information or a way to relax, and Lily Tuck's work tries to convince people to attach more importance to the reading process and discover the importance of reading fiction "with imagination". The tone of the article is objective due to the use of formal and neutral language, the presence of sufficiently convincing facts and arguments as other writers and their works. I find the author's arguments well-based enough to agree with her opinion. In the modern world, where technology is developing by the second, the usual reading of literature is disappearing into oblivion. Many people see reading as a necessary skill for finding information or reading for entertainment. Lily Tuck shows that such a process is a bad reading practice. People who do not read books lose the opportunity not only to educate themselves in various fields, but also the opportunity to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of reading, capable of transferring a person to any place, time or situation.
