“Kafka believed that in struggling against the world, your best bet is to side with the world. In a sense, this is what Wolfson does, wholeheartedly joining ranks with anyone who might treat him reductively or dismissively. This doesn’t lead to a doubling of perspective, as he abandons his own perspective entirely and leaves no one behind to stand up for him. He enthusiastically joins in an aggressive attack on a space that he has himself vacated. What he writes, particularly in his first book, is not a confessional, where the mental patient explains and justifies himself or tries to communicate his peculiar experience of the world. It is a case history, which Wolfson largely writes in the voice of his doctors, though in his narration you can hear other voices as well, those of neighbours, teachers, relatives and strangers……Wolfson inhabits his antagonists completely. He reads psychiatric books and journals, he adopts their language and he never says a word in his own defense.” Kevin McCann.
[Kevin McCann is a writer based in New York, he studied for his masters at Humboldt University in Berlin and is currently studying for his Doctorate at NYU. McCann’s article about Louis Wolfson GOOD-NIGHT LYUDI was published in Cabinet magazine number 37, and is currently shooting a documentary on Wolfson for Epsifilm in collaboration with Duccio Fabbri for which he has recently shot interviews with Sylvère Lotringer and Jeffrey Mehlman and we will be shooting an interview with Paul Auster in June.]
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