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  • Kafka’s strategic obfuscations

    Clayton Koelb, in his Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed, notes that Kafka often altered his manuscripts to make them weirder. On several occasions he would write a passage that helpfully described a character’s action or attitude (typically some form of anxiety). For example, he might write something like: Pedro could only imagine what the… Continue reading