tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post115484750557645000..comments2024-02-04T10:42:07.020-05:00Comments on Light reading: Maniacal blog entry #2Jenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1155178716505783222006-08-09T22:58:00.000-04:002006-08-09T22:58:00.000-04:00I'm not really up on this stuff, but Calasso gives...I'm not really up on this stuff, but Calasso gives details in his afterword, and in particular is immensely scathing about Kafka's friend Max Brod, who's the one who I think chose that title for the published aphorisms--part of the polemical goal of Calasso's collection, in other words, is to strip away all the overtly theological and moralizing aspects implied in that title....Jenny Davidsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-1155175114396212152006-08-09T21:58:00.000-04:002006-08-09T21:58:00.000-04:00The Zurau Aphorisms were written by Kafka as "Refl...The Zurau Aphorisms were written by Kafka as "Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope and the True Way"; some (many?) were taken from his diaries and The Blue Octavo Notebooks. Exact Change appended the "Reflections" to their edition of The Blue Octavo Notebooks; I compared the aphorisms sampled & they correspond to a t. Or a K.<BR/>TBON is an odd book in itself; one of the handful of books I regularly pull off the shelf for a random inspirational stab.E.https://www.blogger.com/profile/05797165655712864103noreply@blogger.com