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[that] Black Forest philosopher Heidegger has kitschified philosophy... after whom the generations have been chasing, showering him with revolting and stupid doctoral theses even in his lifetime—I always visualize him sitting on his wooden bench outside his Black Forest house, alongside his wife who, with her perverse knitting enthusiasm, ceaselessly knits winter socks for him...
LOL, the one and only Bernhard
— Jun 06, 2024 11:09AM
LOL, the one and only Bernhard
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Fionnuala wrote: "That's very funny, Vesna. I once sat on a plane alongside a man who told me he came from the same Black Forest valley Heidegger had chosen to live in—and he was not any more impressed with him than Bernhard!
Haha, your flight seatmate sounds very Bernhardian, Fionnuala. There are loads of more anti-Heidegger rants ("that petit bourgeois of German philosophy ... with his crocheted black Black Forest cap on his head” for a starter :-)) that would make this a perfect novel for him.
Hmm, comedy in the title of a Bernhard novel. I guess this is the opposite. Quite interested to read for myself what he has to say about a region I visited last summer.
Adina (way behind) wrote: "Hmm, comedy in the title of a Bernhard novel. I guess this is the opposite. Quite interested to read for myself what he has to say about a region I visited last summer."You guessed it right, Adina. A tongue-in-cheek title. He said a lot about several Austrian and German regions, but mostly about Vienna, the city I love and the city Bernhard despised (to out it mildly) in his novels. And yet I love Bernhard, can't help it :-)
I once sat on a plane alongside a man who told me he came from the same Black Forest valley Heidegger had chosen to live in—and he was not any more impressed with him than Bernhard!