[lit-ideas] Re: The Short Answer
- From: Chris Bruce <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:22:35 +0200
On 27. Aug 2004, at 18:06, Andy Amago wrote:
> Michael Chase, for example, has posted, and no one has answered.
>
Did my excerpt from Adorno's _Minima Moralia_ not reach the list? I=20
found it to be relevant to Michael's posting. (The promised commentary=20=
- and more from Adorno - will follow, if any interest is shown.)
How well is Adorno known to other list members? There was a spate of=20
publications (and a commemorative stamp released) on the occasion of=20
the 100th anniversary of his birth last year. I attended a very=20
interesting discussion evening last November with the author of one of=20=
those publications (Stephan M=FCller-Doohm: _Adorno: Eine Biographie_). =20=
M=FCller-Doohm told me that the book was to be published in English=20
translation this March (i.e., March 2004). Has anyone read it?
Adorno is one of the German authors whom I have the most difficulty=20
reading (and listening to: I have a series of CD's of talks of his that=20=
were broadcast during the 50's and 60's). On the other hand, listening=20=
to Heidegger is sheer delight - although it is Adorno for whom I have=20
more sympathy philosophically. (The better I get to know Hegel - and=20
it is in no small part thanks to Adorno that I have finally embarked on=20=
that enterprise - the less originality I see in Heidegger.)
Off the top of my head the only author I can think of with whom I have=20=
more difficulty than Adorno is Thomas Bernhard. 'Stream of=20
consciousness' is one thing; his writing - at least in _Der Untergeher_=20=
is more *swamp* of consciousness, and I persist in getting as stuck in=20=
it as his protagonist did. Anyone read Bernhard either in the original=20=
German or in translation? Are all of his books like that?
Back to *listening to* German authors: Robert Musil's _Mann ohne=20
Eigenschaften_ is being released on MP3 CD's. I am just about through=20=
the first book (just over 33 hours on 2 CD's). The second book is due=20=
out (again in MP3 format) this fall. Are there any Musil readers (or=20
listeners) out there? Is there anyone who shares my opinion that _MoE_=20=
is (one of) *the* most important 20th century novel(s)?
Chris Bruce
rambling on at 2 a.m. in
Kiel, Germany
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