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Kafka

  • Last resort

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    On Dora Kellner, Walter Benjamin and the biography of a hotel

  • What an animal isn’t

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    Two vastly different books — one a picaresque tale, the other a dystopian meditation — both recount a transition from human to animal or from animal to human.

  • « Everything starts with fire » — Interview with Hélène Cixous

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    « The smell was like the sharp notes of a trumpet, a sort of rat-tat-tat like a burst of gunfire, a bombardment. »

  • Of Anders & Kreuzwendedich

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    On two tales of racial metamorphosis, salted or sugared, one hundred years apart.

  • On Kafkaesque pedagogy

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    Not the nightmare one might instinctively expect. Franz Kafka and Stig Dagerman on parenthood vs. educatorhood: who can educate a child?

  • An Unlucky Man

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    « He rolled down the window, went back to honking the horn, and started waving my underpants out the window. »

  • To see a city

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    « What if all fictional characters from novels continue to dwell somewhere, just like the dead? » Sewn together, the fragmented narratives of Daniela Hodrová’s City of Torment (Trýznivé město) make something deeply European.