I am not saying that these great writers intended to moralist, or to impress upon us their own ideas of right and wrong: this would be far from the truth. What I am saying is that their works continually remind us that good and evil are real, and that we cannot be neutral towards them. Now that we have thought a little about what literature is, it is time to go back to the question I asked at the beginning: what is the use of it? Are there any