... method. Often, today's works deemed experimental, daring or new are actually harkening back to the symbolic systems and manners of old trappings; Kafka and Pynchon, for example, had an avid interest in Kabbalah, which are texts with nebulous, unfixed characters and settings that morph radically; ...

... applied to the Bible, the Kabbalah, and all experimental literature throughout time, but it's part of why I find Ovid strange and compelling and Kafka my favorite writer. And I think that's the mode Lynch (more and more over his career) and Frost (especially given his soundbites about greek myth ...

... rest--but I still vastly prefer TR's singularity. I'm not much of a TV watcher, though--I'm more into novels, and I'd bristle at someone saying Kafka's writing, for instance, "really needed some extra eyes on it."

... bedside, and for certain things he felt he had to write himself, used bright crayons on large pieces of paperboard because his vision was so poor. Kafka was writing a piece as he was dying of pneumonia about a character being unable to swallow and slowly dying of starvation and thirst. Plenty of ...

... / different masks is a thing Lynch is really into. Actors by nature are professional doppelgängers. Also interesting how Cole has a Franz Kafka picture in his office. It could be that this is character building , because Cole likes cryptic and surreal literature , but Lynch has aknowledged ...

An article that might be of interest in Senses of Cinema

http://sensesofcinema.com/2018/feature- ... obsession/

... the time, not merely reflect it. As Gabriel just said it earlier, it should elevate, not leave one in despair. Is The Gulag Archipelago pretty? Or Kafka's Trial? Are they fun? Or perhaps ugly? Are you desperate having read them though? What you are suggesting is simply "pop" in its lowest ...

... his work. I feel, for example, that decades of this personality-centered approach have been more of a hindrance than a help to the mainstream Kafka research. Knowing more about Lynches philosophical foundations, however, could help. But other than being a spiritualist (probably without adhering ...

I don't know why you're quoting me......... I know metamorphosis is a short story by Kafka, i actually read it in german. I also read The castle and The trial. But Kafka is also a movie from 1991 starring Jeremy Irons that mixes up Kafka's real lifestory with some ...

Thatfabulousalien wrote:

waferwhitemilk wrote: I watched Kafka (1991) with Jeremy Irons the other day, and I wouldn't be surprised if Lynch was influenced by that a little. It reminded me of The Return anyway. Good movie!

It's a novel...

a novella, actually.

waferwhitemilk wrote:

Mr. Jackpots wrote:Kafka. The Metamorphosis. .

I watched Kafka (1991) with Jeremy Irons the other day, and I wouldn't be surprised if Lynch was influenced by that a little. It reminded me of The Return anyway. Good movie!

It's a novel...........

... so I think even if Beckett is not a direct influence then Lynch and Beckett share 'common ancestors'. Whether it be Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, Kafka, Camus, or any other of the vast number of (loosely termed) modernists whose thoughts turned towards Existenzphilosophie in the early and mid ...

waferwhitemilk wrote:

Mr. Jackpots wrote:Kafka. The Metamorphosis. .

I watched Kafka (1991) with Jeremy Irons the other day, and I wouldn't be surprised if Lynch was influenced by that a little. It reminded me of The Return anyway. Good movie!

One of my favourites. I hope he was influenced by this.

Re: Above: Bunuel for sure. And then writers like Kafka and Beckett. I'm not sure if the similarities between Lynch's stuff and Godard's have ever been intentional, and the latter is a lot more aggressive and political, but there are a lot of serendipitous ...

Mr. Jackpots wrote:Kafka. The Metamorphosis. .

I watched Kafka (1991) with Jeremy Irons the other day, and I wouldn't be surprised if Lynch was influenced by that a little. It reminded me of The Return anyway. Good movie!