![]() ![]() Says ‘interpret me,’ and none will permit it” ( Adorno 1981: 246), something Peter Heller also argues: that, in Kafka’s work, “the subjection What’s it mean to you?” As Adorno famously wrote: “Each sentence The lure of interpreting Kafka’s work is in this perplexed refrain: “What “Read his books?” “Fuck no.” Bubbles is perplexed. Bubble squints at the aphorism Walon has handed him: “Fonzie Kafka. Is this “over-plus of meaning on Kafka’s side” that “gives rise to the profusion of interpretations,” More going on in a story,” Michael Hofmann writes, “something probably to do with sex or violence or families or metaphysics, but we’reĭamned if we know what it is” ( Hofmann 2008: x). ![]() “We obscurely feel, we bet, we practically know there is something It is a beautiful aphorism, at once pulsating with meaning and Can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have free permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature,īut perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could have avoided. ![]()
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