Re: "Excellent"

hi john,

thanks for the response below re diamant. i haven't
had a chance to read the book. have been during some
rilke research. (by the way, since you are a poet, i
would be most curious about your take on 'that bastard
rilke'.)

back to franz: i'm not sure if all of his writings
have been translated into english. do you know? i've
never sat down with the complete works and tried to
match up titles. (in the recent cambridge campanion
to kafka, there is an interesting chapter on the state
of kafka texts. some controversies regarding what or
who are we reading in the texts NOT published by
kafka. as you know, there's always been concerns re
max's editing; the essay fleshed it out nicely.) i
sense most, if not all, of k.s work has been
translated; but as to which texts were used is another
problem (apart from those he published).

kim

--- Omlor@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Kim (again),
>
> I have read the first few chapters of the Dora
> biography and a colleague of
> mine did get the chance to interview the woman who
> wrote it -- Kathy Diamant.
> Hers is a fascinating story -- this whole project
> began as a bit of family
> history and grew into an absolute obsession.
>
> The book, at least the opening chapters of it
> anyway, are also intriguing and
> I thought rather well written. There is a certainly
> a genuine passion in
> this story, not only between Franz and Dora, but
> between the biographer and her
> subject. It's both a story about an amazing woman
> and a story about the
> process of constructing a biography, especially such
> a personal one for an author
> who share's the subject's name, and the meaning that
> process gives to the
> researcher.
>
> I think it is going to be a good read through to the
> end.
>
> Thanks for mentioning the other one as well.
>
> All the best,
>
> --John
>
>
>

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Received on Thu Jun 26 14:12:32 2003