Zadie on Kafka again
I mentioned a week ago that Zadie Smith’s lecture on Kafka is in the latest Jewish Quarterly magazine. Today, I see it is also in the New Republic with another teasing intro:
“I am literature,” Kafka declared. But his extraordinary prose rejects everything that the novel embraces. Most writers investigate what people make of their lives; Kafka wonders whether it is even possible to be alive. And this crucial question puts him at war with the novel itself.
Damn, that’s so true. One needs to be a subscriber to view it online, so if anybody is, and is willing to do me a very nice favour, can you send it to me via email?
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Zadie’s Kafka
- Judgement Day again
- Kafka and Smog The secondary literature on Kaf…
- Chinese Kafka
- Happy Birthday Franz Blow up the balloons, ligh…
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