
404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)
The History of Literature
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I Think He Was a Bit of a Twitchy Self, You Know?
A lot of people probably, if they've forgotten what it's like, or they've never read it, then they probably just think of it as sort of unremittingly bleak and dark. Which is very different from, i think, i think once you start reading kofka, see that. At one of the readings he gave in his lifetime in munich there was soat least one person who fainted when he readorwdn play well with him. Hea, i also have in my mind another version of kofka,. whichprobably isn't fair, because this wasn't intended to be a bio pick or anything, but the orson wells version of the trial
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