The late Kundera has fascinating insights into how the novel has intersected with history.
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History’s Arc Bends Towards Kafka
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History’s Arc Bends towards Kafka
Literature provides a special way of knowing, a way different than, say, philosophy. But it’s hard to prove this because we need to use the language of rational philosophy to make literature’s case. Once we have done so, philosophy can seem more effective than literature. After all, it tells us things straight up, without resorting […]
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