Dear C,
Thank you for your remark below:
"I am sure reading Tolstoi from his parables to his Maximum Opus, War and Peace is certain to evoke things that are dear to all of us. He is subversive without doubt, and you will be a better person for having read him."
That was a response to my raving about a diary by Andrzej Zulawski a film director and a novelist (1940-2016). The diary which rebels against almost everything and pulls no punches against the established cultural flow is appropriately titled "Nocnik". This polish word means a night chamber but could also as a neologism be taken as the night notes (reverse to the diary - etymologically based on daily activities.) This term night chamber/nigh notes evokes dirt and waste since that's what goes into the potty.
Madman Zulawski, to keep with the chamber potty meaning, delivers plenty of shit and obnoxiousness in talking about his lovers, family and colleagues and writers or filmmakers he doesn't like. Yet he gets away with that because, when not being an asshole curmudgeon, he dazzles with above the scale perceptiveness, brilliance and depth when riffing about politics, history, books and films.
A remarkable read. A truly subversive intellectual, who cherishes subversiveness, truthfulness and daring of Tolstoi as a thinker, philosopher and a sophisticated story teller.
Thank you for your remark below:
"I am sure reading Tolstoi from his parables to his Maximum Opus, War and Peace is certain to evoke things that are dear to all of us. He is subversive without doubt, and you will be a better person for having read him."
That was a response to my raving about a diary by Andrzej Zulawski a film director and a novelist (1940-2016). The diary which rebels against almost everything and pulls no punches against the established cultural flow is appropriately titled "Nocnik". This polish word means a night chamber but could also as a neologism be taken as the night notes (reverse to the diary - etymologically based on daily activities.) This term night chamber/nigh notes evokes dirt and waste since that's what goes into the potty.
Madman Zulawski, to keep with the chamber potty meaning, delivers plenty of shit and obnoxiousness in talking about his lovers, family and colleagues and writers or filmmakers he doesn't like. Yet he gets away with that because, when not being an asshole curmudgeon, he dazzles with above the scale perceptiveness, brilliance and depth when riffing about politics, history, books and films.
A remarkable read. A truly subversive intellectual, who cherishes subversiveness, truthfulness and daring of Tolstoi as a thinker, philosopher and a sophisticated story teller.
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