Gogl's the Nose

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You know, a lot of the descriptions and the scenes are as absurd as they are before. You can tell things are culminating. I would say that there there's a different kind of absurdity to me in that the koka absurdity is so dreamlike. So even though you can't, you know, we'll talk about all the fantastical elements of it, none of that, i think, i hard to take literally.

David and Tamler wander through the bewildering dream-like world of Franz Kafka’s "The Trial." In part one of a two-part discussion we discuss the circumstances of its publication, the various interpretative approaches that can be taken to the novel, and all the ways that Kafka’s prose gets under your skin, making you feel what’s happening even if you don’t fully understand it. Recorded in the decidedly un-Kafka-esque location of Nosara, Costa Rica – thanks to the Harmony Hotel for having us back!

Plus – Social Psychologists for Peace send an open letter to Vladimir Putin urging him to reverse course on the tragic invasion of Ukraine. Putin seems intent on toppling the Ukranian government but has he considered Sherif et al (1961), Tajfel (1977), Festinger (1954), and Brewer (1991)?