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Okay I’m glad this other story was good because l was thinking where tf is this gothic horror I’ve been promised? Got his most famous work left now

The second short story was giving me such a headache too many random characters constantly being b introduced

"Christine Brooke-Rose doing Kafka"

This is a work of unspeakable genius.

This scene, with the wound, I'll have to read it one more time, perhaps several, right now, but I briefly felt I'd read something better than Before the Law, from The Trial, something better capturing what it is to be human, a facet, or the totality therein. I only fear that the particular loneliness I felt therein was a tad too solipsistic. I'll see whether this "too" is in fact actual.

The best melancholic homosexual gothic writer I have ever read, no doubts there ;-)

Excellent stuff - though touching on my childhood fear of being buried alive is an easy way to get my spine to tingling!

The combination of Nate and Ronald's excellent reviews, and references to Broch and Joyce in the intro, have got me very excited to read this...