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Kafka and Illness

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Conversations on Kafka
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Using Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as a starting point, this memoir of MS examines a range of lives and works to think through how illness challenges identity and how literature can help find a way through.

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The Brazilian Kafka: Clarice Lispector

Dubbed "the Brazilian Kafka", the writer Clarice Lispector wrote an experimental text that seems to echo the "Metamorphosis" in a number of ways.
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Kafka and Ecology

Although Kafka does not treat environmental issues directly, his work has much to say about time, scale, uncertainty, inside and out and ecology in a broader sense, along our own position in a fragile world.
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Conversations on Kafka
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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Karen Leeder
Keywords
franz kafka
the metamorphosis
metamorphosis: a life in pieces
Multiple sclerosis
illness
insects
bruce cummings
j. m. barry
reception
Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages
Date Added: 03/06/2024
Duration: 00:16:55

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