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'Reality Examined to the Point of Madness': László Krasznahorkai

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Wood, J. (2012). 'Reality Examined to the Point of Madness': László Krasznahorkai. In Wood, J. The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, pp. 277-289

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[...] the abysses in Krasznahorkai are bottomless and not logical. Krasznahorkai often deliberately obscures the referent, so that we have no idea what is motivating the fictions: reading him is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their hands at a fire, only to discover, as one gets closer, that there is no fire, and that they are gathered around nothing at all.

just a cool analogy

—p.282 by James Wood 6 years, 8 months ago

[...] the abysses in Krasznahorkai are bottomless and not logical. Krasznahorkai often deliberately obscures the referent, so that we have no idea what is motivating the fictions: reading him is a little like seeing a group of people standing in a circle in a town square, apparently warming their hands at a fire, only to discover, as one gets closer, that there is no fire, and that they are gathered around nothing at all.

just a cool analogy

—p.282 by James Wood 6 years, 8 months ago