"Rilke, I suppose my favorite writer really, and in the best sense a profound writer, is full of shit. I mean, his ideas are nonsensical. As philosophical notions I have no respect for them at all, but as poetic notions they are absolutely beautiful.”
Agred.
>>9640019
Did Gass speak german? I kind of have to disregard anything he has to say about Rilke otherwise.
>>9640065
He does. Apparently he took classes under Wittgenstein too. Not sure if I believe it though.
>>9640019
So... not much different from the Tunnel then, eh?
Aesthetically, it was great. Otherwise... it was pretty mediocre, which I think was kinda point when the "epiphany" I usually get from other novels for the Tunnel's case was simply "mediocrity sucks."