(235 words) “A man is like a novel: you don’t know how to end to the very last page,” notes one of the characters in the novel “We” by E. Zamyatin. Indeed, man is the most fascinating and complete book, which contains all the secrets of being. Maybe, therefore, feeling an ancient, inexplicable relationship with the book, a person reaches for it as a source of knowledge, friend, teacher, comforter and sage.
Sooner or later, the search for oneself leads a person to a book in which the voice of generations shows him the path of self-determination and comprehension of simple vital meanings. The book is a creatively rethought daily routine in which there is a place for problems of both everyday and sacred nature. It all depends on the question that a person asks when opening a book. Therefore, as a result of reading, new possibilities of knowledge appear. The penetration into the cultural heritage, of which the book is an integral part, becomes for man a tool of spiritual development, a way of familiarizing himself with the beautiful.
“A good book is just a conversation with an intelligent person,” A. Tolstoy said. This quote reflects the idea of transferring the centuries-old experience of the best representatives of his time to the modern reader, who only needs attention and genuine interest in the world comprehended by him.
Books are food for imagination, an alternative reality, the key to which is always with the reader. The more meanings he opens, the more diverse his questions become, the stronger his need for new discoveries. The process of cognition is endless, but as a result of such a search, the reader’s taste grows stronger, a moral choice takes shape and an aesthetic experience is formed, which means that a thinking creative individual is created, capable of not only understanding the world around him, but also transforming it.
