97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)
Books of Some Substance
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The Diaries of Kafka
Kafka's work is too singular and elusive to be subject to any reductive interpretation. But the diaries open up many more avenues for interpretation, he says. "The closer we can get to Kafka's texts, the more interpreting we can do" The idea of some kind of skeleton key that will unlock all of Kafka has always been a dangerous one.
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