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Gérard Garouste's dream gift: a dinner with Kafka

2020-12-02T05:23:33.673Z


EXCLUSIVE - The painter confides in us his desire for the end of year celebrations: discussing the Kabbalah with the writer of the “Trial”.


“Improbable dreams, I have several.

In my absolute dreams, there is a privileged meeting with Franz Kafka, the author born in Prague in Bohemia in 1883, died in Kierling in Austria in 1924. I have been working on Kafka for five years with my friend, the philosopher Marc -Alain Ouaknin whose program, "Talmudiques", explores the facets of Jewish thought, every Sunday morning on France Culture.

I will also devote my next exhibition to him in March at the Templon gallery, 28 rue du Grenier-Saint-Lazare (3rd).

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Garouste: "A painter is a liar who stumbles on the transcription of the truth"

Kafka is of course a brilliant person, the writer everyone knows of

La Métamorphose

,

Le Procès

,

Le Château

.

But the Kafka that interests me is the one we don't know.

The secret Kafka who had Kabbalist friends.

His initiation into Kabbalah means that he wrote these novels, hastily qualified as "surrealist".

What is behind these unfinished novels, which defy comprehension, with these failed dates that never happen?

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Source: lefigaro

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