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Reid : Borges , did you feel akin to Kafka when you read him first ? > Borges : No , it took me some time , very sensibly , quite some time , but then I wrote two stories and there I played with being close to Kafka , minor stories ...
Reid : Borges , did you feel akin to Kafka when you read him first ? > Borges : No , it took me some time , very sensibly , quite some time , but then I wrote two stories and there I played with being close to Kafka , minor stories ...
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Reid : And it is the notion that Kafka gives us a certain focus , an eye or a way of looking at things with which one looks back on things one had previously read without that focus . This is what a lot of people have written about your ...
Reid : And it is the notion that Kafka gives us a certain focus , an eye or a way of looking at things with which one looks back on things one had previously read without that focus . This is what a lot of people have written about your ...
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Reid : Apropos , here is a question . Considering how important Kafka is today , why do you think he did not wish for us to see his work ? Borges : Yes , he asked Brod to destroy it . But he knew , he wouldn't destroy it .
Reid : Apropos , here is a question . Considering how important Kafka is today , why do you think he did not wish for us to see his work ? Borges : Yes , he asked Brod to destroy it . But he knew , he wouldn't destroy it .
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Irony Ambivalence and Belief in Kleist and Kafka | 3 |
Anderson | 4 |
Jorge Luis Borges | 20 |
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