The Kafka Studies Department Levy Francis
The Kafka Studies Department Levy Francis From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly…
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The Kafka Studies Department Levy Francis
From Francis Levy, author of Seven Days in Rio, which The New York Times called "a fever dream of a novel," comes The Kafka Studies Department, a highly original collection of short, parable-like stories infused with dark humor, intellect, and insight about the human condition. A prism of interconnected and intertwined tales, inspired by Kafka, the stories examine feckless central characters who are far from likable, but always recognizable and wildly human. While the book's style is deceptively simple and aphoristic, it carries a hallucinatory moral message.
Life is irrational or accidental or both. "Knowledge is not power, power is not power. We drift victims, victimizers.
A collection for our time." -Joan Baum, NPR "A collection of bleak and amusing literary short stories from Levy...A dark, sometimes funny, meditation on the absurd