PS: A more World-centric guess at other prophetic writers and books.

[Mark Kohut]

Kafka. The Man Without Qualities. Broch's The Sleepwalkers, I've often
heard said,
although this one I've never even looked at.
The recently read Hopscotch (more "prophetic' maybe than Marquez, which
doesn't mean better necessarily) but I could hardly tell.
Back to Shakespeare, maybe The Tempest and Measure for Measure? Sorta.


On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> their appreciation of BLEEDING EDGE as the world
> has turned in the direction it has, I was just reminded
> of a brilliant thematic hint that TRP himself gave us
> in the trailer to it.
>
> The upper West Side macher in the vimeo
> describes himself as working 'on the margins' ---like Karl Rove!
>
> To me, this novel is a living example in my lifetime of how
> an artist penetrated so deeply into our world that though we
> "got it" and appreciated it when we read it, we have lived since so
> overtly through the
> world he foresaw revealing itself that the word "prophetic" must apply.
>
> I'm trying to think of historic literary examples I've heard about.It is
> NOT like
> It Can't Happen Here nor even Roth's The Plot Against America in my mind.
> They are, what, too literal not deep enough although good?
>
> Melville? In a stretch, I know, the way it took a couple of hundred years
> for
> Hamlet's depth psychology to be felt and appreciated? Austen even? Poe, in
> a way?
>
> Anyway, you can stop reading the weaker speculations after the first three
> paragraphs
> and just comment on my stronger beliefs on BLEEDING EDGE.
>
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