Clichés, lugares comunes y la obsesión por la originalidad | Episodio 10 | Ni cultos ni borrachos.

What do the world-saving hero, the love triangle, the "once upon a time," the alcoholic detective, and the chosen one have in common? They all started as great ideas... until they became clichés. In this episode of Neither Cultured nor Drunk, we talk about clichés, commonplaces, and one of literature's greatest obsessions: the search for originality. Why do some stories seem repetitive? Does a completely original idea truly exist? When does a cliché impoverish a text, and when does a great writer manage to transform it into good literature? We discuss the most frequent commonplaces in novels, short stories, and films, the difference between a cliché and an archetype, the value of narrative formulas, and why the best writers don't always avoid clichés: often, they reinvent them. We also reflect on the contemporary pressure to be original and whether, after thousands of years of storytelling, it's still possible to write something entirely new. Because perhaps the problem was never repeating a story, but telling it without a unique voice. If you're interested in literature, creative writing, narrative, short stories, novels, and literary analysis, this episode is for you. In this episode we talk about: What is a literary cliché? The difference between a cliché and a commonplace. The most frequently repeated archetypes in literature. Is it possible to write something truly original? How great authors reinvent familiar stories. The clichés that work... and those that should disappear.