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Anonymous literature
Among those literatures in the world, there is this anonymous literature.
According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, anonymous means not named or
identified; made or done by someone unknown. From that definition, we assume
that one anonymous literary work theoretically belongs to someone but either
history has failed to record it or the writer himself has refused to be published.
These facts bring those literatures labeled as no name literary works.
As for the reason of history, we may leave it untouched because nothing
we can do about that but, on the other hand, the reason of writers choices for
staying in the dark with their literatures have us wonder on whys and hows. The
quote No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money 2 explains to us that
without their names on their works, there wont be any fame, glory or money for
them. Basically, there is no credit for them. Their literary works will only remain
as a part of world literature, it can be famous or even worse, unknown like their
writers and finally forgotten. It is all depends on what those literatures bring.
Then what will happen to the writers? Well, first of all, of course they
dont have to worry about their responsibilities over their literary works, either the
works perhaps wound other peoples feeling or even inspire them, the writers will
be kept silent and can do nothing about that. The other consequence is that they
will not suffer from the lure of fame and the bad judgment from people. This
works well if the writer truly wants to explore his own writing without any
interruptions from the outside. But how can they survive without being credited
for their works? Well, some of them are not fully writers, they write only to
express their ideas. As for life, they do something else.
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3 China: 1759
4 France: 1465
5 America: 1880
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