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Deconstructing the rationality of terror: William Blake and Daniil Kharms
From: Comparative Literature
Date: 19970101
Author:Craig Brandist
SUCH TEMPORALLY and spatially diverse writers as William Blake (1757-1827) and Daniil Kharms (1905-42) do not, at first glance, appear strong candidates for a productive comparison. Yet continuities of orientation, theme, and even philosophy are surprisingly abundant, and remarkable contextual parallels are also discernible. Regarded as bizarre eccentrics in their respective lifetimes, both writers recoiled with horror from the brutalities of industrialization and suffered from political repression. Not without reason, both writers saw the ruling ideology of their respective cultures as a ...
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