The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time by Franz Kafka

Ben Okri reads The Rescue Will Begin In Its Own Time by Franz Kafka, translated from the German by Michael Hoffman. A legend is an attempt to explain the inexplicable - it is bound to end in the inexplicable. Ben: I'd never encountered that sort of oddly domestic aspect of Kafka. Do you think that these short pieces fragments show him in a different light or are they very consistent with what you'd already read? Both. They're really unexpected. Only Kafka could make the cotton of a loaf of bread into an epic absurdity. And then the farmer was to me a real revelation.