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Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Myth of the Farmer

The third piece is for me by far the funniest. It's almost like a stand-up comedy routine. These are workers demands taken to a certain kind of absurdity, yet made perfectly normal and reasonable in the way it's delivered. He wanted to be a dramatist. His drama was contained in his voices. Do you recognize that? Is that an American quality as well?

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