{"id":49596,"date":"2017-03-29T05:36:44","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T05:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=49596"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:39:28","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:39:28","slug":"the-self-etnographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-self-etnographer\/","title":{"rendered":"the self-etnographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I am young, rich and well-educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic and lonely. <\/em> <small>\u2013 Mars, Fritz Zorn<\/small><!---I come from one of the best families from the Right Bank of the Zurich lake, also known as the Golden Bank. I have had a bourgeois education and all my life I have been well-behaved. My family is passably degenerate, which is why I have without a doubt a heavy heredity and am damaged by my social environment. Naturally I also got cancer, which goes without saying if one considers everything I have just said---><\/p>\n<p>Carr\u00e8re noemde dit boek in zijn boek.<br \/>\nBoek dat ligt te wachten (ik kan niet wachten).<br \/>\nAll work, no joy, makes Mac a dull boy.<br \/>\nDan Kevin Kelly.<br \/>\nDan de hartslag van een ander voelen.<br \/>\nTerwijl intussen dat boek, die eerste zin, die eerste zin&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--- mvm ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Frenchy zegt over dit boek,\n\nThis book isn't a work of fiction, but a sort of memoir recounting the story of someone who has been \"educated to death\" and who posits that by refusing to rebel against his upbringing, he somehow deserves the fate he encounters, a growing tumor on the neck that metastases into a widespread cancer of the body and becomes a gigantic metaphor of the damage caused by the pettiness of bourgeois values and ideals.\nThe story in itself is incredibly sad - one of the subplot being the state of virginity of the writer, who doesn't even have any sexual urge, and dies a virgin - but because the style is incredibly elegant and funny and the author cannot help but see the irony of his situation, this becomes one of the most brilliant examples of dark humor in literature ever written. \nIf you like Thomas Bernhard, this is the writer for you.\n\nFor years I had wanted to believe this autobiography to be a hoax, but thanks to the magic of the internet I've learned that it was indeed the true story of one Fritz Angst (his real name, which predetermined his fate, so to speak) who assumed the slightly altered pseudonym of Fritz Zorn (anger, in German). \nI have read this book numerous times and think this is one of the all-time best autobiography ever published, with The Education of Henry Adams maybe. \nI hope it will be reprinted one day in English and maybe translated again, if indeed the original translation didn't do justice. If you can lay your hand on a used copy somewhere, please read it. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am young, rich and well-educated; and I am unhappy, neurotic and lonely. \u2013 Mars, Fritz Zorn Carr\u00e8re noemde dit boek in zijn boek. Boek dat ligt te wachten (ik kan niet wachten). All work, no joy, makes Mac a dull boy. Dan Kevin Kelly. Dan de hartslag van een ander voelen. Terwijl intussen dat<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-self-etnographer\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[693],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49596"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51510,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49596\/revisions\/51510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}