Judgement Day again
Jeff Nowak at The Modern Word’s Kafka site gives an early review of Stanley Corngold’s new work Lambent Traces. This is the sort of book that excites me rather than the latest corporate slush-funded talking point. Corngold’s analysis, as explained by Nowak, of The Judgement is very good and stimulating, though only halfway there I think. One needs another writer, not mentioned here, to take it on.
Nowak makes some rather generalised, over-elaborated points about “the original intent becom[ing] lost” in all these secondary works, which is drearily reminiscent of Sunday Supplment chat. The idea of “origin” has been well examined enough (and in relation to Kafka) for such banalities to be unnecessary forever. One day it’ll be good to welcome a translation of the collection of essays on Kafka published by Blanchot between 1943 and 1968. Everything in De Kafka a Kafka is already available in other books, so I’m being greedy. Whatever.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Zadie’s Kafka
- Kafka and Smog The secondary literature on Kaf…
- Happy Birthday Franz Blow up the balloons, ligh…
- Kafka’s Last Love
- Zadie on Kafka again
