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Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Absurdity of Kafka

Kafka is a very deeply honest writer. I love the way he assigns his, his contract characters, his opposing characters,. such a fullness of the rigorous logic of the humanity. There's also a little bit of, of little red riding hood happening, I feel. You know, the farmer suddenly struck by his large teeth and even feels in his mouth, you know, that this is perhaps not a man. It's perhaps a wolf in human clothing or.

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