An earlier posting, viewable here, proffered the argument of J. Hillis Miller that the rational man of the modern world is largely responsible for humanity’s estrangement from the Divine, and I went on to suggest (building upon the work of Mikhail Bakhtin) that expanded “dialogue” and engagement with others might serve as mitigation for the aforementioned estrangement.

Kafka by Robert Crumb and David Zane Mairowitz

Fantagraphics Books

978-1-56097-806-0

Trade Paperback

Franz Kafka said, “What do I have in common with the Jews?

My review of this book appeared originally in another publication and is reprinted here:

Brooklyn Follies
By Paul Auster
Henry Holt and Company, $24.00, 304 pages
ISBN 0-8050-7714-6

Meet Nathan Glass. He is eager to tell you all about himself. But to hear Nathan tell it, he is—at least at the outset of this superbly comic novel—a cynical fifty-nine year old man who has returned to Brooklyn for only one reason: He is quietly waiting to drop dead.