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How many people know for fact that Lynch and Kafka both stated Dostoevsky’s important influence to on their work? How many people have read enough popular novels from the 19th Century as well as watched enough TV and devoured both Kafka’s and Lynch’s body of work and therefore clearly see the same technique?
Really what it comes down to is what percentage of /lit/ reads, and out of that percentage what percent reads critically and re-reads key works? I mean it was reading enough Russian literature that I actually noticed that it was a recurring thing for writers to deliberately make the reader feel a sense that reality is artificial, and I looked into Russian literary criticism and they have a name for it, “defamiliarization”, the process of taking what is so extremely familiar your brain glazes over it, and making it suddenly alien and unsettling and “off” to force you to be conscious of it and create a sense of existential angst (which remember, refers to the dread of acute individual awareness and the loneliness that comes with that, of being unable to “belong” to reality because you suddenly can’t simply “breathe” it like everyone else). From here it was easy to notice Dostoevsky’s personal approach to this technique, and then notice it bled into Lynch and Kafka
