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First, their lives are nothing but a depiction of the intellectual climate of an era. Writing about the life of a major creator who stands at the center of an era’s intellectual atmosphere is essentially writing about that very thought-world. Of course, ideas can simply be listed and compiled in a table—that belongs to the academic field, the world of researchers. But that does not help the next-generation thinker. What they need is the environment in which those ideas sprouted, the doubts, the struggles, the setbacks. They need the emotional states. They need the forums of debate. They need the portrait of the minds that produced those ideas. These are provided by biographies. And, going a step further, by novels. Sathish |
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