Literature, as an artful poetic or prose discourse, constitutes a form of communication between the author and the receiver, which is realized through the active participation of the reader, who, as the final recipient, participates logically and emotionally, interprets, understands, and judges. Emotion is transformed into thought and this, in turn, into emotion expressed through poetic or prose discourse.
Literature is also not a simple representation of reality, although it contains elements of it; after all, the realization of a literary work requires both experiential experience and the ability to transform an event or situation. However, it offers aesthetic excitement to the receiver and at the same time the ability to view the various versions of an apparently common reality. [...]
(From the book's preface)