literatura

'in forty years of teaching English, Mr Fisher had come to believe that nothing was new in literature. the same plots are repeated time and time again: the tragic lovers; the quest; the trickster; the revenge; the saviour; the coming-of-age; the struggle between good and evil. most of these were well-used before Shakespeare got hold of them; even the Bible contained little that was significantly new. a change of costume here, of location there: stories do not die, but are simply reincarnated every generation or so into a different time and idiom.'
J. Harris, 'Fule's Gold'