Sunday, September 2

Kafkaesque is the new irony

I see it everywhere. Attacked, gutted and left to rot as a cliché. Most recently here. It's funny, because going on a guided tour, no matter how labyrinthian a locale it happens to be, is by definition the opposite of kafkaesque. How ironic! Anyway, to me the underground always seemed more dostoevskyian (perhaps even ellisonian) than anything else.

2 comments:

MJA said...

The new Book-Loop blog theme is a bit kafkaesque.

Unsettling. Not sure if I like it. I'm trying to derive meaning from it, but I feel it was made specifically to frustrate such an endeavor.

Ben said...

Hmmmm, no, what you're describing sounds more Pynchonian.