MEMBER BLOG TAG: nabokov
| Friday, May 2, 2008 10:45AM | | | | Books That Make Us Write Books | Tags: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Ma Jian, Metamorphosis, Charles Simic, Antonio Munoz Molina, Fatou Diome, Ma Jian, Nabokov
| | | Resonances: Contemporary Writers on the Great Works
Thursday May 1
Gabriel Garcia Marquez never forgot the day he won permission to write. It happened long before he knew he was a writer, and it happened instantly, as soon as he finished Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
...Probably Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” was a revelation . . . It was in 1947 . . . I was nineteen . . . I was doing my first year of law school . . . I remember the opening sentences, it reads exactly thus: “As Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” . . . Holy shit! When I read that I said to myself, “This isn’t right!... | | | | | |
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