Taken together these linked essays reveal Kafka in his astonishing many-sidedness. In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka’s work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe’s The Sufferings of Young Werther Nietzsche’s conception of aphoristic form bureaucratic organization accident and risk the logic of possession and inheritance and myth, among others.Įven as Corngold explores Kafka’s work across different fields and tangents, he does so in vivid, readable prose, free of jargon, and with an eye to Kafka’s ongoing relevance to the concerns of his day and ours. ![]() Order your copy at Order from Bloomsbury here. We are lucky to have it.” –Vince Passaro, author of the novels Crazy Sorrow, and Violence, Nudity, Adult ContentĪlison Stone’s New Book Available for Pre-Order!įrom immigrants to insurrectionists, from Demeter to David Bowie, Stone gives us searing, moving poems filled with powerful imagery and an original music. So, one recognizes that a simple seeming book of pensées is really the exploration of a distinct and valuable cultural point of view. Everything about Stone’s writing is oriented toward freedom and much of her linguistic and literary sensibility specifically evokes erotic and intellectual freedom–the very sound of the sentences, their surprises, the quick adoption of new positions in relation to the thing looked at and engaged with. It had a specific erotic push and was battled back as eroticism always is. One is reminded in multiple ways during the reading that Stone came of age and was politically, intellectually and emotionally shaped by the struggles and commitments of second wave feminism, and we’re further reminded that for feminists like Stone the movement was not only about rights, and not at all about protections for women, but about freedom for women, a much more dangerous thing, for women and for society at large. She writes about life during COVID, at home with ‘the man I live with’ about old friends and glancing love affairs about books and films and television shows, with a deeply appealing combination of spitfire skepticism and a constant openness to pleasure and joy. She calls these fragments postcards, which is charming and accurate up to a point, but the writing is better than any postcard you ever got unless you got one from Laurie Stone and she wrote it really small so all the wit and all the passing contemplations could fit. ![]() “Laurie Stone’s Streaming Now is a book of journal-like entries, scraps of critical pieces, bits of memoir, and it is a delight.
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