Irving Howe Quotes

About Some Books We Feel That Our Reluctance To Return To Them Is The True Measure Of Our Admiration. It Is Hard To Suppose That Many People Go Back, From A Spontaneous Desire, To Reread 1984: There Is Neither Reason Nor Need To, No One Forgets It. The Usual Distinctions Between Forgotten Details And A Vivid General Impression Mean Nothing Here, For The Book Is Written Out Of One Passionate Breath, Each Word Is Bent To A Severe Discipline Of Meaning, Everything Is Stripped To The Bareness Of Terror.
Kafka's The Trial Is Also A Book Of Terror, But It Is A Paradigm And To Some Extent A Puzzle, So That One May Lose Oneself In The Rhythm Of The Paradigm And Play With The Parts Of The Puzzle. Kafka's Novel Persuades Us That Life Is Inescapably Hazardous And Problematic, But The Very 'universality' Of This Idea Helps Soften Its Impact: To Apprehend The Terrible On The Plane Of Metaphysics Is To Lend It An Almost Soothing Aura.

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