...a deathly serenade...

Vanity. Blue [Introduction]
At the time of printing Franz Bema's Vanity.
Blue remained written in a series of papers all stacked
on the desk, with post it notes written on many pieces of
paper for corrections, and is published as is...not much
can be ascertained in terms of meaning, although he
wanted the work to follow a distinct 'anarchist path' he
mentioned in our correspondences the year before his
death, so this meant a lack of paragraph breaks, strange
ideas seeping out of lonely estranged characters, difficult
subject matters and perhaps many ideas related to time
spent years before in Tangier Morocco, although it seems
to end in a manner befitting quite an apt end, there were
many more pages, mostly written, that were very
insinuating of a complete other half of the novel that was
slightly too haphazard to publish at the time of
printing...
Max Brod
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