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Ben Okri Reads Franz Kafka

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Lost Writings of Kafka

When you read him young, he's at the same time more strange than you can imagine. He sort of tricks you into feeling that what's to come as normal and you only afterwards realize that it wasn't. The other peculiar thing about Kafka is that he actually developed the cast of his mind very early in life.

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