Fool On The Hill
A forty-five year non-publishing silence. Thats a lot of writers block. Or perfectionism. Or something else. Perhaps the paranormal. Conflicting accounts have emerged of what J.D. Salinger’s been doing...
View ArticleBALLAD OF THE EASY WRITERS
“A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to Die”. Franz Kafka Diaries ”Still, some of the little details and correspondences are striking. George Steiner, who, as we’ll see, believes...
View ArticleA CASTLE, A KAFKA, CARTONS & CONRAD THE COMRADE
”The recurrence of linkages of one sort or another between Hitler and Kafka throughout “Hitler studies” is rather remarkable–and controversial. In addition to the D. M. Thomas character’s conjecture...
View Articleguilty by juxtaposition
A peculiar combination of context and coincidence.A new aesthetic discourse in Nazi representation. Is there an aesthetics of fascism? Rudolf Herz is the artist who took the seemingly incongruous...
View Articlebanality between the sheets: sucking on being
It has to be remembered that in the pecking order of European jewry before WWII, Germany was the absolute top of the hierarchy.There was no secular educational infrastructure to speak of in the East....
View Articleredemption against a brick wall
The representation of trauma. What are the limits, the intersection between the desire to understand and the voyeuristic gaze? The conjunction of political and popular culture can collapse the meaning...
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