Satirist Petri imagines Trump as Kafka’s K–but in this case Trump’s mind, not the court, is Kafkaesque.
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Imagining Trump as Kafka’s K.
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Russia’s Kafkaesque Legal System
Kafka’s “Trial” describes the current Russian justice system.
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History’s Arc Bends Towards Kafka
The late Kundera has fascinating insights into how the novel has intersected with history.
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Reading Lit to Cope with Prison
In his book about reading lit in prison, Genis talks about how novels helped him understand fellow inmates and discover his own Jewishness.
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Calvino on Reading the Classics
In a famous essay, Calvino gives us multiple reasons to read the classics.
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Kafkaesque & Other Common Lit Allusions
Wednesday In a recent Literary Hub article, Emily Temple honors the 95th anniversary of Franz Kafka’s death (June 3, 1924) with a list of times she has encountered the media calling something Kafkaesque. As is often the case in such matters, the term has been much abused, but that shouldn’t make us any the less […]
