Mario wrote:
> Miker, I was referring to irony in the style, though
in The
> Woman Chaser the content is also a send-up of all
sorts of
> things, including Freudianism, Kafka, etc. The
author is
> very much present, subtly pointing at
things.
*********** Thanks, Mario. I think I understand what you're
saying. I'm taking WOMAN CHASER with me on travel, and I'll
try and get to it and see if I can figure out what you are
talking about. I don't know a whole lot about Freud other
than the big picture thing of the subconscious having a
powerful influence over an individual and a few of his
hard-to-comprehend theories like the Oedipus stuff. And
Kafka? Post-WWII existentialist, wasn't he? I understand a
little of that, since I went thru a Hermann Hesse period in
my teens. Didn't Kafka write a book about a guy turning into
a bug? Metamorphosis, maybe.
miker
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