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Mystic Without a Church

Quillette 28 Mar 2024
Still, the author’s familiar voice has been captured with typical panache by Michael Hofmann, who is renowned for his versions of Franz Kafka’s and Joseph Roth’s novels, and his occasionally hilarious ...
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Forgottenness by Tanja Maljartschuk - read an extract

RTE 24 Mar 2024
The heart puncture was performed in the Austrian sanatorium Wienerwald, the same one where the little-known writer Franz Kafka had unsuccessfully undergone treatment a few years earlier.
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The Jackpod: What leopard?

On Point 23 Mar 2024
... Franz Kafka quote about the normalization of the abnormal in mind.
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Anna Magdalena’s years of solitude in Gabo’s voice

Hindustan Times 23 Mar 2024
Love, solitude, and remembrance are the prominent themes in the late Latin American novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s oeuvre ... It is not like Franz Kafka’s insistence that his friend Max Brod burn the scripts. That was Kafka’s nihilism ... “Gran Ok final”.
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Franz Kafka's wisdom: Top 10 quotes from the Metamorphosis

Your Story 20 Mar 2024
Explore 10 powerful quotes from Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis," delving into themes of identity, alienation, and the human condition ....
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Tommy Orange: ‘My whole family has had problems with addiction, including myself’

The Observer 17 Mar 2024
Orange’s debut was published in 2018 to enormous acclaim ... Sign up to Bookmarks ... Instead, he developed a taste for writing in translation, reading Franz Kafka and Jorge Luis Borges, Clarice Lispector, Andrei Platonov and the Swiss writer Robert Walser ... .
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A 70-year-old Russian activist was asked to sign a form saying he was willing to ...

Business Insider 15 Mar 2024
He turns 71 this year ... During this trial, Orlov called the proceedings unjust and read aloud parts of Franz Kafka's "The Trial," which parodies the justice system through the fictional story of a man arrested on a charge he knows nothing about ... ....
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Putin is master of all he surveys as Russians head to polls

Dawn 15 Mar 2024
From the court, where he was sentenced last month to two and a half years in prison for “discrediting the armed forces”, veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov compared Putin’s Russia to something out of a Franz Kafka or Vladimir Sorokin novel ... .
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Vladimir Putin is running for president, and he's going to win. Again.

RNZ 15 Mar 2024
Vladimir Putin ... From court, where he was sentenced last month to 2-1/2 years in prison for "discrediting the armed forces", veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov compared Putin's Russia to something out of a Franz Kafka or Vladimir Sorokin novel.
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Chinese writer Mo Yan

The Patriotic Vanguard 15 Mar 2024
Donald Morrison of U.S. news magazine TIME referred to him as "one of the most famous, oft-banned and widely pirated of all Chinese writers", and Jim Leach called him the Chinese answer to Franz Kafka or Joseph Heller ... .
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Polls open in Russian vote to extend Putin’s reign

Dawn 15 Mar 2024
From the court, where he was sentenced last month to two and a half years in prison for “discrediting the armed forces”, veteran Russian rights activist Oleg Orlov compared Putin’s Russia to something out of a Franz Kafka or Vladimir Sorokin novel ... .
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