More Surrealism--Times Review of Memories of the Future by the Russian writer Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
In relation to the blog below, see the review of MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE in the NYTimes this Sunday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/books/review/Schillinger-t.html?_r=1&ref=review
Another writer who blurred the lines between sleeping and waking, nightmare and reality.
Deep down, this kind of writing, raises a profound human question: What is it to be fully awake? and What is it to dream? The best fiction is accurate deception. Good surrealism and magic realism is precisely that.
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Michael Pokocky says:
Another great piece
Another great piece Thaisa!
Adding to what you have said, humans have been evolving for thousands of years and along the way, humans have been psychologically and psychically conditioned. The writers you mention here and in an earlier post today The Short Short Story Revived @ http://www.redroom.com/blog/thaisa-frank/the-short-short-story-revived broke free from the psychological and psychic conditioning, which keeps man away from himself, and were freed from their egos. I believe that if you study the works of Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Casey then you will see the groundswell for creative license taken by artists of surrealism and magic realism.
Cheers_________Michael
Thaisa Frank says:
mucho
thanks again, Michael....
like Wallace Stevens said
"the imagination is the only genius"
Michael Pokocky says:
I found this story on Kafka for your interest
Hi Thaisa,
Quoted:
"Israel's National Library is demanding that a German museum hand over the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial.
The library says the manuscript — sold at auction for $2 million US in 1990 to a book dealer acting on behalf of the German government — should be returned to Israel in accordance with the wishes of the late Max Brod, the executor of Kafka's will."
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2009/10/25/kafka-thetrial-manuscript.html?ref=rss
_______ Michael
Thaisa Frank says:
Oh Michael--thanks!
I'm going to look this up.
What's so interesting about Kafka is that he wasn't at all
religiously identified with being Jewish--like so many
European Jews. But at some point he loved going to the Yiddish
theater and got some of his ideas about characters from it. (I
read this in his journals.)
Also, he was definitely a canary in the mine. A lot of his stories
are eerie parables of WW II. And he was planning to live in Palestine.
Thanks again!
Thaisa
Dale Estey says:
And there is always this . .
And there is always this . . .
http://www.redroom.com/blog/dale-estey/kafkas-kafkaesque-legacy
Thaisa Frank says:
you wrote that, right?
It has your inimitable voice!
Dale Estey says:
If Kafka were alive today
If Kafka were alive today (more than in spirit, of course) I might awake any day as vermin.