Which works are stranger? Kafka's works? The House of…
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Which works are stranger?
Kafka's works? The House of Leaves? Or Yi Sang's selected works/poems?
Personally, I find Yi Sang's works to be very, very strange. Stranger than the rest, at least. Not absurd, of course; I can understand (or at least comprehend) Kafka's works, and especially his absurdism.
Counterintuitively, works of little to no logic are much easier to comprehend than works of unfamiliar logic. For example, you can comprehend (or at least acknowledge) why 42 is the answer to everything, but you'd have a hard time figuring out why 1+1=0, or why do you keep becoming your father's father's father's...... father.
Now, to admit shamefully, I had not laid my fingers on any page of "The House of Leaves". Of course, I've heard many intriguing things about it. Such as the layout of the pages, the uncertainties of the narrative, or how the word "house" is always blue. But, alas, I've never read the book before, so I cannot tell.
That, is why I asked the question.
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Kafka's works? The House of Leaves? Or Yi Sang's selected works/poems?
Personally, I find Yi Sang's works to be very, very strange. Stranger than the rest, at least. Not absurd, of course; I can understand (or at least comprehend) Kafka's works, and especially his absurdism.
Counterintuitively, works of little to no logic are much easier to comprehend than works of unfamiliar logic. For example, you can comprehend (or at least acknowledge) why 42 is the answer to everything, but you'd have a hard time figuring out why 1+1=0, or why do you keep becoming your father's father's father's...... father.
Now, to admit shamefully, I had not laid my fingers on any page of "The House of Leaves". Of course, I've heard many intriguing things about it. Such as the layout of the pages, the uncertainties of the narrative, or how the word "house" is always blue. But, alas, I've never read the book before, so I cannot tell.
That, is why I asked the question.
#entertainment
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Yi Sang, and I think the cutoff is the whole point. Kafka's absurdism still has a rule you can name, even when the rule is cruel, so the dream stays walkable. House of Leaves is loud about being strange; the layout does half the unsettling for you. Yi Sang's poems don't hand over the rule or the trick. A line will almost parse and then refuse the room it seemed to open. No logic is a closed dream. Half-logic is the one that won't sit still.
