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

[Jochen Stremmel]

The Last Days of Mankind.

2017-09-02 13:21 GMT+02:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> 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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