{"id":15281,"date":"2022-05-31T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=15281"},"modified":"2022-06-01T17:33:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:33:18","slug":"episode-488-andreas-kilcher-and-judith-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-488-andreas-kilcher-and-judith-butler","title":{"rendered":"Episode 488 – Andreas Kilcher and Judith Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show 488:
\nAndreas Kilcher and Judith Butler<\/a><\/p>\n

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“Kakfa was drawing in a very individual, very idiosyncratic way. I think that’s the source of his boldness, just to draw and not to think.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>To celebrate the publication of the groundbreaking Franz Kafka: The Drawings<\/a> (Yale University Press), contributors Andreas Kilcher<\/a> & Judith Butler<\/a> join the show for a wide-ranging conversation about Kafka’s art & how it intersects \u2014 and diverges from \u2014 his writing. We get into their essays in the book (and Andreas’ role as co-editor), the humor & grotesqueness \u2014 and craft! \u2014 of K’s drawings, the legal battle over their ownership, and the ways in which the drawings help us approach Kafka in a new light. We talk about Kafka’s use of comic tension & comic relief, the ways in which the drawings liberated him from the horizontality of writing, his objections to using illustrations in his books, and Kafka’s ‘positive nihilism’ & the reason why neither Judith nor Andreas believe he really<\/em> wanted Max Brod to destroy all his papers. Plus, we explore their own histories with Kafka, their personal favorites among the drawings, and how their students’ responses to Kafka have changed over the years. Give it a listen!<\/a> And go read (& revel in) Franz Kafka: The Drawings<\/a>!<\/p>\n

“In my view, the drawings constitute a different way of working with the line on the page.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n