tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post4291971532507921050..comments2024-01-30T13:39:46.484+00:00Comments on The Bibliophilic Blogger: Bruce Chatwin by Bike and Who Owns Kafka?Nicholas Murrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07189263209323471368noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-27625821347069322032010-08-10T19:35:40.662+01:002010-08-10T19:35:40.662+01:00Amiable fill someone in on and this mail helped me...Amiable fill someone in on and this mail helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you for your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-47421309084293750942010-07-23T18:59:48.001+01:002010-07-23T18:59:48.001+01:00I would certainly agree with Nicholas. It would be...I would certainly agree with Nicholas. It would be interesting tangentially to look at the logic of the Jewish claims to Kafka: it presumably, for it to make any kind of sense, means Kafka is being claimed specifically as a 'Jewish' thinker/writer, or representative of Judaism. Now Kafka for all his genius, or rather by the means of his genius, emanates a deeply guilt-ridden and paranoid worldview - for all the brevity of this I think it is broadly unanswerable. And yet the Jewish library wishes to claim 'possession' of Kafka as ideologically a Jewish footsoldier; otherwise the logic of their claims - not territorial but necesarily ideological - are nosensical.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-88545763676966899642010-07-23T13:48:59.985+01:002010-07-23T13:48:59.985+01:00I think there are two issues here: what we might c...I think there are two issues here: what we might call the legal, international copyright law etc position which makes one think the two sisters, goldiggers or not, can do what they like with the stuff, and then there is the question of a kind of moral or tribal right. I think the Joyce analogy is a good one and most of his manuscripts are not in Ireland and are in Texas and other places. So I think anyone can have the manuscripts provided they give unfettered access to scholars and I agree that no one owns a writer culturally. They are what they are and their work is what it is. It is owned by our imaginations.Nicholas Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07189263209323471368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-64552862156579368312010-07-23T13:26:19.733+01:002010-07-23T13:26:19.733+01:00Kafka is mainly a Jewish creation? And so Joyce is...Kafka is mainly a Jewish creation? And so Joyce is mainly a Catholic creation & the Vatican should in given scenario assert its rights? . . . Makes no sense to me. I also consider a human an autonomous living entity, certainly not the creation of an abstract thought system, such as Judaism, Catholicism, etc. and for representatives of such systems to claim ownership of other humans . . . are we all slaves or something?Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-30499154718806534052010-07-23T10:19:40.919+01:002010-07-23T10:19:40.919+01:00But if it were not for Max Brod, Kafka would proba...But if it were not for Max Brod, Kafka would probably be unknown, and wasn't Brod Jewish? So, though the language is German, Kafka is mainly a Jewish creation; by the way, where are Einstein's papers?anagastohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12173541768886884924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4490888218551680190.post-65085011010318521012010-07-23T09:22:21.572+01:002010-07-23T09:22:21.572+01:00The Czechs would seem to me to have the only tenab...The Czechs would seem to me to have the only tenable claim. If James Joyce material was unearthed would the British state and the Roman Catholic Church not be laughed to scorn if they tried to assert claims? - the English on language grounds, or like the Austrians on political; & the Vatican on religious.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11708539533684206357noreply@blogger.com