"There is no great literature, there is old literature and moving literature, but they are not the same thing." And when most people talk about great literatur

"There is no great literature, there is old literature and moving literature, but they are not the same thing." And when most people talk about great literature, they aren't talking about either thing. Most people mean something like Adler's Great Books criteria when they talk about great literature: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books