Kafka's Aphorisms in BtZ

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Helpless. Absurd? Grotesque? Kafkaesque?
Romantic gaze?
A link worth looking at. me thinks:

The Grotesque in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Other 19th century
European Novelists

http://www.cambridgescholars.com/download/sample/62011

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 3:28 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> Probably won't have a chance to really start engaging for another day or
> two, but a preliminary note:
>
> p. 5 of my copy of GR: "There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and be
> quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in
> darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before or
> after?"
>
> I see some connection between this and one of Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms (a
> fav; #109):
>
> There is no need for you to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen.
> Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, be completely quiet and
> alone. The world will offer itself to you to be unmasked; it can't do
> otherwise; in raptures it will writhe before you.
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