"Unattributed, 'Reconstruction of the machine from Franz Kafka's "In the Penal Colony," 1914' (not dated)."

Reblogged from Hyperallergic by way of a Jared Schickling FB post, 3 Sept 012:

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[Ed Baker]

WOWOW! I got the 1961 Schoken edition
first writer I ever read all of his works was Franz
Kafka so I just got down of top shelf my copy of those short stories
(that 'play' in my mind yet) and opened to page 193 seemingly automatically to find marked in margin and with a "!" this:

"I am rambling on, and here stands his (the old Commandant's) apparatus before us. It consists, as you see, of three parts. In the course of time each of these parts has acquired a kind of popular nickname. The lower one is called the 'Bed,' the upper one the 'Designer,' and this one here in the middle that moves up and down is called 'the Harrow.'"

"The Harrow?" asked the explorer. He had not been listening very attentively, (etcs)"

WOWOW ! I first came across Franz Kafka in a book that I got for my
Bar Mitzva (a gift from my Orthodox Rabbi ... Reb Bognar) I have the book here yet...

some collection of short stories to start off with at about 14 years old
in 1953-54 Washington, D.C. & the first year of Integration.

the collection opens with "Conversation with the Supplicant"

"There was a time when I went every day into a church, since the girl I was in love with knelt there in prayer for half an hour in the evening
and I was able to look at her in peace."

for me ? Her name was Diane something-or-other.... a cute Italian Catholic girl. Beautiful.... from a distance.
damn...

Kafka's writings my "first teachers" even via translations

Masterful form and content ... some terrific rhythms...

glad this Literary Executor (what was his name... Bok or something?) did,'t burn Kafka's work as Kafka instructed him to so do.

and DIG THIS on the back of MY dog-eared edition.... W.H. Auden's
comment:

"The author who comes nearest to bearing the same kind of relation to our age as Dante, Shakespeare and Goethe bore theirs, Kafka is the first one would think of ... Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the predicament of modern man."

in this one edition is everything that Kafka allowed to be published.
Andre Gide (no 'slouch' in his own right (way) adds:

"I can not say what I admire more, the naturalistic presentation of an imaginary world, rendered believable through a minute precision of the images, or the daring turn to the mysterious."

DANG ! If the home brew was chilled... I'd "drink to that" !

maybe even get a little "high/drunkZ" on another "daring turn to the mysterious." or some such suchness ?

[john]

Great comment, Ed. And entirely a propos.

The rabbi who gave you Kafka at 13 ruined (and saved you) - bless him!

The executor's name was Max Brod. And yes, bless him too.

One year for some holiday I bought my dad Kafka's letter to his father and Beckett's complete poems. He bought me the exact same books! So: bless him too!

[Ed Baker]

ap rap por ... yeah and Poe was no slouch, ether..
my Kafka "stash" is cradled between

Schnitzler Flight Into Darkness
Koestler's Thieves in the Night & Darkness At Noon
n one side
and just about all of Camus on the other side...
with Steps and The Painted Bird

nearby to also "open eyes"

remember when the eyeball pooped out of the socket and rolled across the floor?

supposedly a true happening along with the other happenings in his two books
that Kosinsky actually witnessed (I think he said this in an interview) things that happened to his family.

sure am glad that now we got all of this (mostly) Religious Revisionist Absolute Knowledge of History leading us out of the Darkness...

pick a phantasy and charge on, McDuff

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