Tag Archives: Max Brod

kafka: a gate made only for you

Visions that contained all the dark terrors that haunt today’s world. The interplay of shapes and shadows of the modern world in a dance with the emptiness of nihilism, the spirit of old ghettos and of vast , unapproachable and … Continue reading

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kafka: shapes of things

Shapes and shadows harboring within the terrors of the modern world. Dehumanized. Alienation and isolation in all places and within every context. Like Josef K being slandered,”without his having done anything bad, he was arrested one fine morning.” The spirit … Continue reading

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dreyfus: spy fever pitch

Careless pillow talk. And to see the treason from the forest… To explain the impact of Col. Sandherr’s “discovery” on his superiors, it may be useful to recall certain aspects of the military and the social history of the period. … Continue reading

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jailbird love songs

All the arguments for de-legitimizing Israel are fair game. Not for the supposed and ostensible reasons we usually hear, excessive violence, and  racism for example,  but because the country is totally inept, and for its own security and those of … Continue reading

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hayseeds go back to the country

To everything there is a season. And a reason? Its not easy to get at the root causes of Arab world anti-Westernism. it does not seem like a pure hate, but rather the antagonism of the love-hate relationship, like intense … Continue reading

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J.D : still be-Holden

The critics always worked busily to classify J.D. Salinger. He always eluded them. There was always a feeling in many quarters that altogether too much fuss was being made about J.D. Salinger. George Steiner once castigated it as “The Salinger … Continue reading

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what if there was no back then

Not impressed. Deeply dissatisfied. But not surprised at this confrontation with the passive-aggressive; the yearning to be like him, then the abject tragedy arising when the initiative is undertaken. Harold Bloom was just the man to review  Robert Crumb’s The … Continue reading

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ethics and idle fancy: in the attic

Kafka was as much about non-arrival at destinations as he was about non-belonging. In any event there are problems of destination and leaving, coming and going often resemble each other. But as Kafka seems to figure, the pull of Jews … Continue reading

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brothers in arms: miles from nowhere

Ironic. Kafka’s writing was centered around the concept of non-belonging and by extension, about belonging too much. Almost an adversarial relationship with Maimonides golden mean, the elusive middle. Better to poke emotional catastrophe in the groin and hear he roar … Continue reading

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kafka by the pound : surprise pack

Weights and Measures. Precision. A commodity worth its weight in shekels. Better yet, take the talens of silver and gold. The trial he could not have foreseen. The scales of justice where his literary manuscripts, letters, diverse scribblings, and so … Continue reading

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