literary work, n.All

A Literary work (n.) survives ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠by having expressed the ethics of a group that could recognize itself in it; a literary culture is therefore enslaved to those vanished groups.