M & D Group Read (cont)

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Re "a/the Castle": Definitely Kafka.

Given the location, I am also reminded of Coetzee's more Kafkaesque 
novels, particularly "Waiting for the Barbarians." Outposts of the Empire...

Am 10.01.2018 um 19:26 schrieb Smoke Teff:
> Speaking of influences, homages, ancestries, reincarnations: I’m struck 
> again—mentioned it in one post but it may deserve repetition and 
> elaboration—at how much Kafka I see around here, these first ~150pgs or 
> so. (Which is not always the case with my experience of Pynchon.) I 
> believe at least three mentions of a/the Castle. The mass hypnosis. The 
> folly that is not quite mirthless, but is still kind of askew—amok—and 
> horrifying. The way there is madness that happens not center stage, 
> maybe not even properly on the stage at all.
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