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The Devil and Franz Kafka Who Else Hates Him?

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Posted 09 August 2007 - 02:47 PM

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I know what Kafka was talking about in that quotation of him penning a story. It is a remarkable experience to be swept up in a sea of creativity, and I don't see any "Oedipal" urges or other such Freudian ridiculousness.


Actually, in the next line of the entry, he mentioned how Freudian theory influenced him... blush.gif
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 12:50 PM

I like Kafka. I think assuming he was mentally disturbed is a pretty lousy reason to hate his writing. A lot of great writers weren't all that sound upstairs. Poe, for example, was completely out of his gourd on opium. Burroughs was a bit messed up too, and then heroin didn't help things at all. Same for Hunter S. Thompson, Leo Tolstoy, Sylvia Plath, and oh what was his name....oh right Charles Dickens.
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Posted 10 August 2007 - 12:53 PM

Well, at least Poe, Dickens, Burroughs, and Plath were competent writers; Kafka sometimes reminds me of Christopher Paolini in the way he revels in his smart-assed awfulness. angry.gif
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