Kafka and His Legacy
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Christopher Miller
Arguably the most influential writer of the 20th century, Franz Kafka is the key to understanding many of the best writers of our time. Our survey of the Kafkaesque will begin in the mid-19th century and end in the 21st. Readings will include most or all of the following: Stories, The Trial, The Castle, Letter to His Father, and Letters to Felice (Kafka); The Nightmare of Reason (Pavel); Molloy and Endgame (Beckett); The Woman in the Dunes (Abe); The Life and Times of Michael K. (Coetzee); and The Unconsoled (Ishiguro).