Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka
The New Yorker: Fiction
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The Conflicted Relationship Between Father and Son
Kafka is famous for his conflicted relationship with his father. He sets these lines like a painter directing your eye with colors and lines. You can't really go against them because he's set a logic going that this loaf of bread has to be dealt with with a knife. There's two things bread and knife conjoined in a kind of the kind of relationship of effort and will and failure.
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