404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)
The History of Literature
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Did Kafka Ride a Motorcycle?
Kofka was copy editing a story on his death bed while suffering from the late stages of tuberculosis. Ironically, he was being serf starved to death. And so imagine working on that story in that condition. The first time i read it, i think i laughed out loud at the ending. I knowit ends with a punch line, and it's a brilliant one. But also, i've actually been inspired by that story many times.
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