Work is central to literature

[Ya Sam]

'Work, then - broadly defined - is central to literature. Don Quixote goes 
headlong into the windmill - what is the noble fool doing but his misguided 
work? Work puts Ishmael on the Pequod. Work brings Esther to Bleak House and 
sends Humbert Humbert to the house on Lawn Street. Work defines the plot and 
central moral conceit of Ian McEwan's Saturday. Work as wayward scientific 
inquiry prompts Tyrone Slothrop's erections during the Blitz and forces him 
out into the Zone in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, while work as blind 
loyalty reveals the trouble with blind loyalty in Kazuo Ishiguro's The 
Remains of the Day. These examples highlight how vocation in literature is 
never happenstance, never half-hearted decision-making, but artfully 
premeditated and always purposeful. Work does work in every great book - 
even if just to allow the characters enough leisure time to pursue the main 
drama.'


http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2061320,00.html

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