Help me make a list

of writers in whose work every image, every movement of thought, every recognition refers to death

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[cameron]

Maurice Blanchot

[01001010]

FERBER, Edna

[jane]

“Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in two ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.” -- Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler... 249

“Death is the sanction of everything that the storyteller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.” -- Walter Benjamin, “The Storyteller” 7

“Only in the novel are meaning and life, and thus the essential and the temporal, separated; one can almost say that the whole inner action of the novel is nothing else but a struggle against the power of time.” -- Georg Lukács, Theory of the Novel

[Matt]

such a list is obscene, is it not? one suspects carl of URAJOKE(ing)...

nonetheless: gabriel josipovici, gillian rose, arthur rimbaud, susan sontag, paul celan, john berger

[Carl]

When I read Henry James I feel like I’m watching a horror movie: death that could be my own is prefigured everywhere.

[Matt]

Is that an introjective as opposed to projective sort of thing, carl?

[ben wolfson]

Recognitions and movements refer?

[David McDougall]

Marguerite Duras
Celine (?)

[muhahaha]

William Pierce?

[01001010]

BERLE,Milton

[cynic librarian]

Kierkegaard, "Such is my situation in the realm of the spirit. I have disciplined myself and keep myself under discipline, in order that I may be able to execute a sort of nimble dancing in the service of Thought, so far as possible also to the honor of the God, and for my own satisfaction. For this reason I have had -to resign the domestic happiness, the civic respectability, the glad fellowship, the communio bonorum, which is implied in the possession of an opinion. -- Do I enjoy any reward? Have I permission, like the priest at the altar, to eat of the sacrifices? . . . That must remain my own affair. My master is good for it, as the bankers say, and good in quite a different sense from theirs. But if anyone were to be so polite as to assume that I have an opinion, and if he were to carry his gallantry to the extreme of adopting this opinion because he believed it to be mine, I should have to be sorry for his politeness, in that it was bestowed upon so unworthy an object, and for his opinion, if he has no other opinion than mine. I stand ready to risk my own life, to play the game of thought with it in all earnest; but another’s life I cannot jeopardize. This service is perhaps the only one I can render to Philosophy, I who have no learning to offer her, "scarcely enough for the course at one drachma, to say nothing of the great course at fifty drachmas" (Cratylus). I have only my life, and the instant a difficulty offers I put it in play. Then the dance goes merrily, for my partner is the thought of Death, and is indeed a nimble dancer; every human being, on the other hand, is too heavy for me. Therefore I pray, per deos obsecro: Let no one invite me, for I will not dance." -- Philosophical Fragments, Preface

also see Joel Peter Witkin

[Jonathan Weed]

Beckett, obviously.

[jb]

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Signorelli.

[01001010]

""""""recognitions refer?""""""

Hold writers and wankers to a referential criteria, and blogland would soon be dismantled; but then so would most humanities, Lit. and philosophy departments, from Palo Alto to Pittsberg.

[bram]

Patrick Modiano

[jb]

Freud, of course.

'Misremembering Signorelli'

"Herr, what is there to be said?"

"Herr, when that is gone, what is there left to live for?"

[VA]

Camus & Keats.

[VA]

Don Delillo. Pynchon?

[Matt]

You know I'm glad someone mentioned Margeurite Duras (as she's been staring at that broken pier in the image overlooking, all this time).

[01001010]

Spinoza, Baruch

""""The concept of dog does not bark.""""

[nominalist]

""""Delillo. Pynchon""""

Gaze at Capn' Tom's cartoons for a long enough time (the entropy cartoon, trajectory cartoon, bomb cartoons, thanatopis cartoons, the femme cartoons, etc. ) and one might be impelled to sign up for the Lit. book burning...and ah wager a few WWII historians, and physicists may have already signed it............

[VA]

Nominalist (if zat iz your real nëm), you vill not embarass or intimidate ze literature people vis your fascistic insistence on ze Truth!

Other death writer: Emily Dickenson.

[Craig]

Will Oldham, of course.

[old]

Rosenzweig, but it's as an an enemy:

1st line of The Star of Redemption - "All cognition of the All begins in death" and the last two words - "Into Life."

[nominalist]

""""Celine (?)"""""

Given the present state of Ho-wood and NY oligarchies, and Oprahocracy in general,
CelineTime may be soon approaching, or at least some review of the cliffsnotes to Mort a Credit.