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FICTION: The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick -Cathedral, Raymond Carver -Franz Kafka...
Cultural change is subject to other time lags. A few performances make vivid headlines, but for reasons that often turn out to be transitory, wrong or both. Other events remain hidden for long periods, news postponed. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) now stands, along with Joyce and Proust, as an indispensable guide to the modern temperament. Yet readers during the '20s learned nothing of Kafka, for the bulk of his work was published posthumously, and English translations began appearing only...
...Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found, himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect... What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka...
Cynthia Ozick •Cathedral, Raymond Carver •Franz Kafka...
...Kafka was, in fact, an artist by deliberation and a visionary only by happenstance-and a poor visionary at that. On his deathbed he expected his manuscripts to be burned "without exception and preferably unread." That they were not was a betrayal of his wishes, and a permanent grant to world literature. To read him as some Slavic oracle is to miss his importance as a writer who could draw out his soul like leviathan. In Kafka's case, seeing the past was a far greater enterprise than foreseeing the future...