“The person who has the secret of literature has the secret of life.”

If there is a secret of literature it can surely not be identified objectively. Literature is a vast patrimony of fictional writings conceived by a huge variety of authors with different historical and cultural standpoints. However, literature is a stimulus, which is consumed and appreciated not just by individuals but also by a group of individuals. That is to say that, beyond personal subjectivity with regard to literature there exist a space of communal appreciation of it. In this space of analysis, there exist a degree of agreement on the greatest texts of all time, and we can presume that the authors of these texts possess the secret of literature.
William Shakespeare, probably the most universally appreciated writer of all time can be ...