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Mots de Michaux

Nous manquons de quoi nous exprimer. Les hommes ne peuvent sโ€™entendre. La parole, si vite quโ€™elle soit, nโ€™est pas ร  la vitesse de la pensรฉe. โ€“ Qui je fus Toute une vie ne suffit pas pour dรฉsapprendre, ce que naรฏf, soumis, tu tโ€™es laissรฉ mettre dans la tรชte โ€“ innocent...

Four by Kafka

Trying to coexist with migraine headaches moves oneโ€™s words in specific directions: โ€œI usually solve problems by letting them devour meโ€. โ€œIn the fight between you and the world, back the worldโ€. โ€œSome deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the...

Kafka on Books

A classic text: Altogether, I think we ought to read only books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesnโ€™t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? So that it can make us happy, as you put it? Good God, weโ€™d be...

Nabokov on Kafka

โ€ฆ โ€œSo when we say reality, we are really thinking of all thisโ€”in one dropโ€”an average sample of a mixture of a million individual realitiesโ€ฆโ€ Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email More Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit...
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