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Kafka touches the ground which neither "mythical divination" nor "existential theology' supplied him with. It is the core of folk tradition, the German as well as the Jewish. Even if Kafka did not pray- he still possessed in the highest degree what Malebranche called "the natural prayer of the soul": attentiveness. And in this attentiveness he included all living creatures, as saints include them in their prayers.
— Mar 16, 2015 05:33AM
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Even the greatest translation is destined to become part of the growth of its own language and eventually to be absorbed by its renewal. Translation is so far removed from being the sterile equation of two dead languages that of all literary forms it is the one charged with the special mission of watching over the maturing process of the original language and the birth pangs of its own.
— Mar 12, 2015 01:49AM
