Thread of Max Brod Hate

I'm practical about these quasi-ethical decisions. If I dislike the writer, then burn his shit.

just fyi, i was kafka in a play by Alan Bennett called "Kafka's Dick" in college which i highly recommend reading. plot synopsis via wikipedia:

Kafka's Dick is a 1986 play by Alan Bennett.[1] It is play about the nature of fame and how reputations are made.
Plot

Set in the present-day in a suburban Yorkshire dwelling, Kafka aficionado Sydney, and his wife Linda, are visited by Franz Kafka and his friend Max Brod who are both long dead. (Kafka had left instructions for all his works to be burned – instructions which Brod chose to ignore).

As we spend time with the unusual party, it becomes clear that Kafka's wish was for anonymity – and also that he had serious issues with his father. When his parent turns up, he is in possession of a very personal secret relating to his son – one which Kafka is terrified he will disclose.

just read that philip roth wants his papers/archives destroyed when he dies.

i wish franzen would burn his novels before publishing them.

Can't believe Philip Roth has TB

first of all, he didn't force a dilemma; his wishes were clear. secondly, again, it's not like he died of old age! the dude got TB and died

― all mods con (k3vin k.), Friday, November 9, 2012 3:39 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not saying he forced a dilemma because his wish wasn't clear, the wish itself, cearly expressed, was the dick move; he knew his friend would want to publish it but told him not to & died

lol J.D.

i wish franzen would burn his novels before publishing them.

related: vladimir nabokov's son eventually publishing the notes for his unfinished novel against his express wishes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Original_of_Laura

i've entrusted my daughter with terrabytes of unreleased aerosmith mp3s to publish on the event of my death

sweet, can't wait for the nine lives outtakes
didn't vladimir's ghost visit his son and tell him it was cool take the $$$$

& vlad's son was like thank you ghost dad

Honkin' on Brodo

take your brod off

give my regards to brod street

even tho I think it is stupid to care about what dead people want on any level, if you are gonna do that I think you should also project what these guys future opinions would be ie what would resurrected kafka 2012 think about being celebrated as one of the GOAT, he would probably like it, in fact he would probably think pre-2012 kafka was crazy.

I'd worry if there was a heaven.

at my funeral they will release 100 doves each with a CD-R of Jimmy Crespo guitar solo outtakes tied to their leg

right, but jewish people don't even believe in heaven, so if you are worried about kafka-in-the-afterlife being pissed off you are at the same time insulting his religious beliefs

xp

in conclusion anyone who doesn't love max brod is anti-semitic

Romney baptized Kafka

is Kafka in Gehenna?

Get a load of the manuscripts on that Brod!

http://stuartnoel.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/nice-beaver.gif

"Nice, brod!"

"Thanks! I had the manuscripts pulled out of the fire this morning."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GWGouymBxk

aero how do you feel about ted hughes burning sylvia plath's diaries?

I used to be like most Plath fanboys in high school about this (i.e. Ted you monster) and then this year I was reading more stuff about Plath and her attitude toward parenting and I guess Ted's claim is "the children really didn't need to ever hear that shit"? Paris Review, Spring 1995:

INTERVIEWER

Would you talk about burning Plath’s journals?

HUGHES

What I actually destroyed was one journal that covered maybe two or three months, the last months. And it was just sad. I just didn’t want her children to see it, no. Particularly her last days.

which seems like a decent reason to destroy them.

aero, have you read Janet Malcolm's book on Plath?

but then again

On the other hand Assia was probably behind Hughes’ burning of Plath’s final diary, the cause of great ill feeling toward Hughes among Plath scholars and enthusiasts, because she could not live with the hatred Plath expressed toward her there. She may also have found evidence that Plath’s original plan was to take her children with her in death, as in the Ariel poem “Edge.” (Koren and Negev quote a friend of Mrs. Plath’s to this effect.)

from here, a review of a book about a woman with whom Hughes had an affair. Who also committed suicide, using the same method Plath did.

xp no, I haven't

Am I reading you correctly that you haven't read any Kafka or Plath since high school?

he hasn't read a book since high school

books were mainly a high school thing for me

Recording deep cuts on Rock and a Hard Place distracted him.

it's okay, man, i've never even read a book

serious answer - no, I haven't read Kafka since I was a teenager. Plath I return to every few years. Her journals aren't her work, she prepared Ariel for publication iirc, there's controversy over the order I think but she had it in MS

unless archie double digest counts

though i never did read that unpublished archie ghostwritten by sylvia plath that got leaked to the internet a couple years back

from what i understand it was the bleakest jughead/big ethel shit though

Kafka's one of my blind spots. Every time I remind myself to reread him I go, "I will. What's for dinner?"

he would have approved of your basic indifference

i basically had to read all the major kafkas three times to 'get' them but it's totally worth it.

from what i understand it was the bleakest jughead/big ethel shit though

yeah it was almost...kafkaesque

archie's world is pretty kafkaesque anyway

perpetual adolescents trapped in the same banal routine for 60 years, overseen by indifferent higher powers

good description of ILX

good description of life imo

but then i'm pretty kafkaesque

http://www.boingboing.net/filesroot/200912211140.jpg

omg

yeah that's classic

serious answer - no, I haven't read Kafka since I was a teenager. Plath I return to every few years. Her journals aren't her work, she prepared Ariel for publication iirc, there's controversy over the order I think but she had it in MS

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:19 (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yahhh this shit is way more heinous on hughes' part than burning diaries tbh?