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PASCAL DIGITAL
seeing & reading; the texts are not captions, just quotations
By: pascal digital
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| Thursday, 1-Jul-2004 00:00 |
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‘When he was twenty, Kafka wrote in a letter: “If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we would also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill-fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves, like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.”
Students of English literature, of any literature, must ask those who teach them, as they must ask themselves, whether they know, and not in their minds alone, what Kafka meant.’
George Steiner, Language and Silence
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i think it is a rare thing for a person to read such a book, but when you do then you know what Kafka was saying 