http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/ the internet literature magazine blog of the future Wed, 23 May 2012 03:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-3623 b.r. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:02:52 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-3623 not there's a proscription against reading them any certain way . . . the regular argument goes along the same lines, Brod always claiming for K. a religious gloom, and the other side (like Michael Hoffman's trans. of Amerika) claiming K. for the comedic. Not to be dull, but both seem right. Beckett seems similar, although much funnier. I think now you'd have a hard finding someone to defend the opinion of Kafka not being funny . . . there's no longer much reverence for the kind of self-serious suffering that Brod advertises so well . . . anyway . . . not there’s a proscription against reading them any certain way . . . the regular argument goes along the same lines, Brod always claiming for K. a religious gloom, and the other side (like Michael Hoffman’s trans. of Amerika) claiming K. for the comedic. Not to be dull, but both seem right. Beckett seems similar, although much funnier. I think now you’d have a hard finding someone to defend the opinion of Kafka not being funny . . . there’s no longer much reverence for the kind of self-serious suffering that Brod advertises so well . . . anyway . . .

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-97657 b.r. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:02:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-97657 not there's a proscription against reading them any certain way . . . the regular argument goes along the same lines, Brod always claiming for K. a religious gloom, and the other side (like Michael Hoffman's trans. of Amerika) claiming K. for the comedic. Not to be dull, but both seem right. Beckett seems similar, although much funnier. I think now you'd have a hard finding someone to defend the opinion of Kafka not being funny . . . there's no longer much reverence for the kind of self-serious suffering that Brod advertises so well . . . anyway . . . not there’s a proscription against reading them any certain way . . . the regular argument goes along the same lines, Brod always claiming for K. a religious gloom, and the other side (like Michael Hoffman’s trans. of Amerika) claiming K. for the comedic. Not to be dull, but both seem right. Beckett seems similar, although much funnier. I think now you’d have a hard finding someone to defend the opinion of Kafka not being funny . . . there’s no longer much reverence for the kind of self-serious suffering that Brod advertises so well . . . anyway . . .

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-3620 pr Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:05:12 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-3620 Hi work are comedies. He as a person I can't say. But The Metamorphosis should be read with lots of laughter. Hi work are comedies. He as a person I can’t say. But The Metamorphosis should be read with lots of laughter.

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-97656 pr Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:05:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-97656 Hi work are comedies. He as a person I can't say. But The Metamorphosis should be read with lots of laughter. Hi work are comedies. He as a person I can’t say. But The Metamorphosis should be read with lots of laughter.

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-3567 b.r. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:04:41 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-3567 curious what you mean by comedic . . . that he has a sense of humor? or that the works are primarily comedies (like the genre)? curious what you mean by comedic . . . that he has a sense of humor? or that the works are primarily comedies (like the genre)?

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-97655 b.r. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:04:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-97655 curious what you mean by comedic . . . that he has a sense of humor? or that the works are primarily comedies (like the genre)? curious what you mean by comedic . . . that he has a sense of humor? or that the works are primarily comedies (like the genre)?

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-3388 pr Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:03 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-3388 I liked reading these excerpts here. I bought his diaries recently and have not made much progress with them. Maybe I'll pick them up again. I will say that that there is truth that he "stayed true to his fictions" and so kept the trajectory of his characters fate tragic, but I really think he is a comedic writer. That is what my last deep impression was on rereading some of his short stories and that was what I was trying to get out of his diaries. I liked reading these excerpts here. I bought his diaries recently and have not made much progress with them. Maybe I’ll pick them up again. I will say that that there is truth that he “stayed true to his fictions” and so kept the trajectory of his characters fate tragic, but I really think he is a comedic writer. That is what my last deep impression was on rereading some of his short stories and that was what I was trying to get out of his diaries.

]]> http://htmlgiant.com/author-spotlight/checking-back-in-with-joshua-cohen-and-kafkas-office-writings/comment-page-1/#comment-97654 pr Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:23:00 +0000 http://htmlgiant.com/?p=1914#comment-97654 I liked reading these excerpts here. I bought his diaries recently and have not made much progress with them. Maybe I'll pick them up again. I will say that that there is truth that he "stayed true to his fictions" and so kept the trajectory of his characters fate tragic, but I really think he is a comedic writer. That is what my last deep impression was on rereading some of his short stories and that was what I was trying to get out of his diaries. I liked reading these excerpts here. I bought his diaries recently and have not made much progress with them. Maybe I’ll pick them up again. I will say that that there is truth that he “stayed true to his fictions” and so kept the trajectory of his characters fate tragic, but I really think he is a comedic writer. That is what my last deep impression was on rereading some of his short stories and that was what I was trying to get out of his diaries.

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