tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post1738038827664633686..comments2023-11-22T04:10:49.266-05:00Comments on Dispatches from Zembla: Georg Büchner: LenzAlokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-17677696521576575682009-10-02T05:20:23.586-05:002009-10-02T05:20:23.586-05:00not sure if you're aware of this, but lenz'...not sure if you're aware of this, but lenz's case study serves as a major launching point for deleuze and guattari's epic, and incredible, 'anti-oedipus'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-88349137152917844072009-01-08T11:18:00.000-05:002009-01-08T11:18:00.000-05:00I've just read Lenz and it's a coincidence that I ...I've just read Lenz and it's a coincidence that I did so right after embarking in one of the greatest and most underrated novels of all time, Broch's Death of Virgil. Both are somewhat onirical and though the impossibility of art isn't the central theme of Lenz they share the same view of it, of it's utter impossibility, a radical refusal for the need of art and it's capability of reaching truth - wich in Virgil's case leads him to dismiss and try to burn the Aeneid. It's a tour de force, but quite worth it.O Menino Mais Esperto do Mundohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14665854391712519700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-23716487979283681732007-04-18T08:49:00.000-05:002007-04-18T08:49:00.000-05:00I like both of them a lot too. They both have a ve...I like both of them a lot too. They both have a very distinctive modern sensibility. <BR/><BR/>I am not familiar with Josipovici's writings at all.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-70191819143045138072007-04-17T23:19:00.000-05:002007-04-17T23:19:00.000-05:00I don't have a lot to say about Lenz other than th...I don't have a lot to say about Lenz other than that I too love it and along with Kleist, Buchner is one of the major spirits of the age in my own constellation. Has Josipovici written about Buchner? I bet he would have something interesting to say as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-82095665928004605962007-03-04T11:18:00.000-05:002007-03-04T11:18:00.000-05:00Okay I got what you are saying. I was thinking of ...Okay I got what you are saying. I was thinking of "ideal" in the philosophical, platonic sense. I thought that Lenz was saying that one should write about the external world, "life" and not abstractions or mental categories. In the story Lenz says these things, i didn't know Buchner also believed the same (i still have to read the introduction to the story). The story cetainly is true to "life" in in accordance to Lenz's philosophy... it is just that it is all about Lenz's mind and his subjective experience. That's why i was a little confused.Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-57469310893830210642007-03-03T11:51:00.000-05:002007-03-03T11:51:00.000-05:00i like so much you wrote about this,so few people ...i like so much you wrote about this,so few people really have read Lenz even tho it is so great.<BR/>But I have to object to one point, the mimesis thing,it is not really so much about copying nature or so, but rather Buechner wanted to declare his distance from some sort of aesthetic ideal that sort of does not do justice to human nature, because it focusses only on dead and scholarly dull art, rather he wanted something alivem that's in the discussion of the dog house, how much he despises that, dead scholarly art. I have to agree nature in Lenz is a bit of a violent force, but in general Buechner stands on the side of nature and refuses the notion that people are being pressed into systems. There is so much to say about Lenz....I always found Lenz really also does justice to all the marginalised people such as lunatics like Lenz or lowerclass people like Woyzeck etc...Lenz by the way had studied philosophy in Koengisberg and wrote a poem for Kant....and these files, of the clergyman, Oberlin, they really exist and Buechner who was himself a doctor used as well as in Woyzeck to explore these mental states in order to find a solution for the question of the sound/sane mind in lawcases, whether these people really could be held accountable for their deeds...such an interesting man, this Buechner...*https://www.blogger.com/profile/05680450955867041830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-91125146960401903192007-02-28T15:49:00.000-05:002007-02-28T15:49:00.000-05:00thanks Kubla! :)thanks Kubla! :)Alokhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947383354732747209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12674755.post-71903326664184099532007-02-28T15:22:00.000-05:002007-02-28T15:22:00.000-05:00HIkeep up the excellent work. i have linked to you...HI<BR/>keep up the excellent work. i have linked to your blog.<BR/>ciaoKubla Khanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11973223751363547679noreply@blogger.com