walter benjamin on literature
"Literature says very little to those who understand it."
-Walter Benjamin
If you have any idea what this means, please post a comment.
I'll give you a clue: stasis.
-Walter Benjamin
If you have any idea what this means, please post a comment.
I'll give you a clue: stasis.
posted by Robert Frumkin at 2:43 PM
1 Comments:
Benjamin uses language in a rather particular way. Any way to get the original text? And/or what book is this from (English)?
I've spent some time with this citation and have developed a theory, but am not sure I'm not spinning a wheel.
Thinking about reading Ulysses with the critical apparatus vs. reading without apparatus, or after apparatus absorbed. Working on the text vs. enjoying the text with "understanding" in the background.
Still, at the very least, one must understand a language in order to enjoy the text.
I reread Hamlet this week and it provides an immediate kind of enjoyment that is sometimes more difficult to achieve reading Ulysses, or rereading it.
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