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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Kafka’s K Would Feel at Home with FISA
A “Washington Post” quiz comparing Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” with the United Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court comes up with some disturbing resemblances.
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Lit, an RX for Fanaticism?
Israeli author Amos Oz believes that literature can provide “a partial and limited immunity to fanaticism.”
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Grendel as a Norwegian Christian Fascist
Apparently Anders Breivik was very well read and he mentions George Orwell, Franz Kafka, and Ayn Rand. What I find striking about them on the list is that they all articulate high levels of paranoia.
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