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Totally fascinated by "Michael Koohaas" by Kleist. Here again it was an inspiration for Kafka. The impossible struggle for justice (The Trial), a man who brings about his ruin for a matter of principle about a trifle.

On a quite diffenent level has some one read this terribly funny novel by John Kennedy Toole, “A Confederacy of dunces”. The poor Kennedy Toole…

You're the first person I've heard even mention Celine. He's funny as hell. I just can't see any higher purpose to his books. He's just an observer, a brutally honest observer. Camus, even though his books were dour, had a philisophical meaning. He has no qualms in contradicting himself, calling himself out, and spreading his bile on all of mankind. I read "journey to the end of the night", in a physc ward...I guess it was a bit counterproductive. I figure you have to feel as sh***y as he does to enjoy his work, otherwise there's a danger of being pulled down into his neurosis.(no offense intended)

Burroughs-I don't know if he's just a stylist, or if he actually has a point.(deconstructing lanuage?)-I dunno.

....I've read all the existenialists(camus,sartre,dostoevsky)...Has anybody wondered if it's a chicken and egg thing?:Angry young teenagers read it because they feel empathy for the outsider, or they want to adopt some rebel facade to make themselves feel better.

.....Raymond Chandler-he elevated me above the dubious philisophical w*k.Simple explanations, no moral justifications.(seriously, read the long goodbye)