Introducing Kafka EXTRACT

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'What do I have in common with the Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.' So said Franz Kafka, described by his friends as living behind a 'glass wall'. Kafka wrote in the tradition of the great Yiddish storytellers, whose stock-in-trade was bizarre fantasy, tainted with hilarity and self-abasement. But alienated from his roots, his family and his own body, Kafka created a unique literary language in which to hide away, transforming himself into a cockroach, an ape, a mole or a circus artiste. David Zane Mairowitz's brilliant text and the illustrations of the world's greatest underground comic artist, Robert Crumb, provide a unique glimpse through the glass wall and into Kafka's world. 'Goes far beyond explication or popularization or survey – a work of art in its own right.' Amazon.com

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