Re(1): Suggested books to read by Bill White............................... IP: 67.150.52.202 Posted on 1/2/2006 at 04:23:04 PM by TSUNTZU
10) Franz Kafka -- any of his works: Again, some people may be surprised I would choose a Jewish writer among my favorites, but I do so for a reason: Of all the Jewish writers out there churning out their hateful spittle, Kafka is the one most purely and self-consciously Jewish. His books are not about the general alienation of the individual in modern society; they are about the particular alienation of the Jew from the real world. No one captures the insanity, self-hatred and neurosis fundamental to the Jewish personality better than Kafka; one can learn more about the enemies of humanity reading him and understanding that he cannot separate his world from reality -- or rather, that he believes his world to be reality -- than one can from having a million gentile writers tell you that.