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thanx for the encouragement. Although i'm gonna have to get around the copyrighted names somehow. Maybe I can go all Kafka-esque....like so... 'Someone at The M.o.M.. must have slandered H.P., for one morning, without having done anything truly, really, really bad (cept for those stinkbombs), he was brought before D.' 
'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
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That's "The Trial"?
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I got that for 25 cents at a recent book fair at school.
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Kafka is wonderful. He managed to identify and relate in beautiful prose the primary malaise of the 20th Century...bureaucracy, and it's horrific effects. If you have ever seen the film Brazil..., a visual interpretation of Franz K. better there has never been methinks. Yoda lives.
'for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.'
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With one exception, Kafka just isn't funny!
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I wonder if you're mythologizing me, like I do you
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In a weird way, he is. The things that happen to his poor characters are so abstract that they are funny.
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quote: Originally posted by Emanuel Matos:
Do you prefer wordy elaborate writing (as in Scott Fitzgerald, José Saramago and Claude Simon); or spare minimal writing (as in Carver, some Bukowski or John Barth) ????
Stylistically, I think it depends upon the subject matter and the nature of the tale. Some stories just lend themselves to greater detail, while others rely on slim, clean prose. |
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Concise and packed, short and meaningful: elements to signify the finest.
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