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A review by jasminenoack
Collected Novellas: Collected Early Fiction 1949-1964 by Arno Schmidt
Okay I plan to be reading this book for a good while now along with Joyce. Especially seeing as these are not from what I can tell meant to be read back to back. Given that.
The first novella "Enthymesis" (which apparently means something along the lines of deliberately making one's own feelings,or the internalizations thereof, honestly wiki is attempting to translate from german and that is the best I can do). The story is a diary of a man attempting to prove that the world is an infinite disk not a sphere, who refuses to stop looking for the end. Yes logically not sensible. but I think that makes the story better. 4 stars.
I will perhaps comment on other stories later and this could end up looking like one of gregs reviews.
Novella 2:Leviathan. This is a story about a solider. Again there is a discussion of math. The only discussion of spherical geometry I have ever come across in a short story. Also a lot of philosophy and religion are mixed in. I believe the leviathan to be that of Hobbes. and the story seems to focus on a man trying to talk to another person about who he himself is to distinguish the individual form the consuming whole. Although it also seems to be about the power and knowledge of the individual regardless of class (The poor may still know those things the rich think of as their own). The solider is a german under hitler (or perhaps not) it seems and it describes both the belief he will win and the poor conditions he lives under.
The stories seem to be about people and their thoughts.
3: Gadir. (the name of a phonetician outpost now Cadiz in spain [how many autonomous communities are there exactly in spain:]) So again we want to know if the world is round. a prisoner has ended up in prison and was attempting to escape to prove the world is round at 98.
The first three are from the same book Leviathan, which appears to be about understanding the world as something larger.
the first
The first novella "Enthymesis" (which apparently means something along the lines of deliberately making one's own feelings,or the internalizations thereof, honestly wiki is attempting to translate from german and that is the best I can do). The story is a diary of a man attempting to prove that the world is an infinite disk not a sphere, who refuses to stop looking for the end. Yes logically not sensible. but I think that makes the story better. 4 stars.
I will perhaps comment on other stories later and this could end up looking like one of gregs reviews.
Novella 2:Leviathan. This is a story about a solider. Again there is a discussion of math. The only discussion of spherical geometry I have ever come across in a short story. Also a lot of philosophy and religion are mixed in. I believe the leviathan to be that of Hobbes. and the story seems to focus on a man trying to talk to another person about who he himself is to distinguish the individual form the consuming whole. Although it also seems to be about the power and knowledge of the individual regardless of class (The poor may still know those things the rich think of as their own). The solider is a german under hitler (or perhaps not) it seems and it describes both the belief he will win and the poor conditions he lives under.
The stories seem to be about people and their thoughts.
3: Gadir. (the name of a phonetician outpost now Cadiz in spain [how many autonomous communities are there exactly in spain:]) So again we want to know if the world is round. a prisoner has ended up in prison and was attempting to escape to prove the world is round at 98.
The first three are from the same book Leviathan, which appears to be about understanding the world as something larger.
the first