The Kafka-esque Universe

Kim despite the fact that I know you addressed this to John your closure is
interesting. I just, today, re-read an essay that I thought was
interesting.

C. S. Lewis writing about enjoyment of story in his essay "On Stories"
references Lindsay's Voyage to Arcturus;

"The physical dangers, which are plentiful, here count for nothing: it is we
ourselves and the author who walk through a world of spiritual dangers which
makes them seem trivial. There is no recipe for writing of this kind. But
part of the secret is that the author (like Kafka) is recording a lived
dialectic. His Tormance is a region of the spirit. He is the first writer
to discover what 'other planets' are really good for in fiction. No merely
physical strangeness or merely spatial distance will realize that idea of
otherness which is what we are always trying to grasp in a story about
voyaging through space: you must go into another dimension. To construct
plausible and moving 'other worlds' you must draw on the only real 'other
world' we know, that of the spirit."

It seems Kim, that Kafka wrote of 'other worlds', the Penal Colony was an
island, a sort of an unreal estate. So, to be 'in Franz' is to be in that
world?
Daniel

to know that kafka's diary from his last year might
still exist. to find that would be incredible! i
hope kathi diamant and klaus wagenbach don't give up
the search.

yours in franz,

kim
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Received on Thu Aug 21 13:38:00 2003