Wednesday, December 20, 2023

 "The artist is not obliged to understand his own art"

Adorno, Notes on Kafka

1 comment:

  1. Well of course a critic would say that. But yeah that's the whole discussion about the limits of authorial intention, reader response theory, etc.

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