Stories have been told as long as speech has existed, and sans stories the human race would have perished, as it would have perished sans water…I see today a new art of narration, a novel literature and category of belles-lettres, dawning upon the world…And this new art and literature - for the sake of the individual charaters in the story, and in order to keep close to them an not be afraid - will be ready to sacrifice the story itself…It is a noble art, a great, earnest and ambitious human product. But it is a human product. The divine art is the story. In the beginning was the story; the human characters came on the sixth day only.Isak Dinesen, “The Cardinal’s First Tale”
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