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The Essay In the Shadow of Kafka Episodes

    Transformer

    5/5 Playwright Jeff Young explores the unusually powerful impact of Kafka's language.

    Kafka's Castle

    4/5 Playwright April de Angelis discusses Kafka's novel The Castle.

    Waving or Drowning: Kafka and Meaning

    3/5 Karen Leeder explores Franz Kafka's very modern use of messengers and messages.

    His Father's Excrement - Franz Kafka and the Power of the Insect

    2/5 Hanif Kureishi on Franz Kafka's personal and artistic fascination with the body and food.

    Margaret Atwood

    1/5 Margaret Atwood revisits an essay she wrote on Franz Kafka when she was 19 years old.