Monday, March 23, 2009

Modernism + Franz Kafka

Respond to the following quotes (your interpretation) based on your reading of Metamorphosis:

On Modernism:

"My task which I am trying to achive is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel - it is before all, to make you see." -Joseph Conrad

"Let us record the atoms as they fall upon the mind in the order in which they fall, let us trace the pattern, however disconnected and incoherent in appearance." -Virginia Woolf

"Works of art always spring from those who have faced the danger, gone to the very end of an experience, to the point beyond which no human being can go." -Rainer Maria Rilke

"If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time." -Marcel Proust

From the Author:

"I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy." -Frank Kafka