Today’s comment comes courtesy of Dalya Alberge, Arts Correspondent for The Times, in the middle of a story about the discovery of Kafka’s porn stash:
Hawes, an Oxford graduate and university lecturer, emphasises his total admiration for the literary Kafkaesque genius who wrote brooding classics such as The Metamorphosis, The Castle and The Trial, and argues that these discoveries merely show Kafka as more human than the popular image.
Says Jamie: Kafkaesque is lazy enough. Using Kafkaesque to describe Kafka is bone fucking idle.
Palau
August 6, 2008 at 5:34 amWhy ‘slag’? You can be a lazy hack without being a slag. Or is this yet another Dutch cultural misunderstanding thingy?
Would you have used that epithet had the journo in question not had a feninine name?
Palau
August 6, 2008 at 5:35 amBlech. I meant ‘feminine-sounding’.
Martin Wisse
August 6, 2008 at 8:33 amIt’s a takeoff of lazy comedy slag. See blogs passim.