Friday, March 06, 2009

List: Kafka's Legatees

1. Maurice Blanchot (liminalism)
2. Jose Saramago (literalism)
3. Ismal Kadare (ambiguity)
4. Thomas Bernhard (endlessness)
5. Peter Handke (namelessness)

Special Mention:
Magnus Mills (failure)

(reading Roberto Calasso)

3 Comments:

Blogger Space Bar said...

and where does calasso fit?

10:19 PM  
Blogger Cheshire Cat said...

Roberto Calasso, "K". Some interesting ruminations on Kafka, even if I doubt one could say anything new...

10:26 AM  
Blogger Space Bar said...

how stupid of me not to remove an excessive article. :D

re-reading ka, by the way, on the strength of this list. no doubt it will in time return me to snow as well.

you should do a list that's purely free-associative. that should give us something to chew over.

9:51 PM  

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