Landstraße, Quint Buchholz
Ennio comments to Fyodor Dostoyevsky versus the Grand Inquisitor in Seville:
“People are wrong when they say that Dostoevsky was a Great Writer, …he was a Genius-Lobotomist… He never urges you to come, you always go visit him by your own will. You sit down on the chair, he looks into your eyes with a smile that makes you feel some cold beneath your stomach. Then he slowly gets his surgery tools, and starts drilling your cranial bone. Then he opens your head and with fast moving arms makes a mix of your gray substance and fresh oxygen that comes in through the opened window. After that he fixes your scalping bone back and leaves your alone within your pathetic existence. This is Dostoevsky, he never explains and never finish his work, letting you to do this by yourself. There are no Raskolnikoffs, no Mishkins and no Karamazovs at all, there are only the different forms of you – the reader. And you are the one to decide, nobody will decide for you. Just take a walk, feel the life running through your hands and finish that damn book! Then go home and kiss whoever you love – wife, daughter, mom… …and stay away from Dostoevsky, because if you want to be part of society – Dostoevsky is not for you, otherwise you will became an anxious exiled being.
P.S. I do thank Dostoevsky for his courage.
P.P.S. As Tolstoy said: “You can love or you can hate Dostoevsky. Whatever your feelings are, you should read him, you MUST!… at least once in a lifetime…”
Off Dostoyevsky topic: I have been looking today at the work of Quint Buchholz, I go back to it like to a favorite vacation spot. No all but most of the sidebar rotating images are his art. Quint wrote to me he was OK with that. I have been collecting postcards of his art for years, without even knowing it was the same artist. And suddenly I realized that there is a direct line from the German romantic Caspar David Driedrich to Quint Buchholz. The Werner Herzog shtick of looking through a back of person to a mystical landscape. In fact I been nursing a post about Caspar David Driedrich on this very subject. There is a tremendous revival and interest in the art of Caspar David Friedrich. The Lobotomists Union…
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