This new play at Melbourne Theatre Company is a sharp, often darkly comic examination of conformity and resistance within the modern corporate structure.
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‘If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?’
Whereas Kafka’s Samsa famously wakes up to discover he has been transformed into a bug, the insect evolution of Hage’s unnamed migrant protagonist happens slowly through his circumstances.
Josef K. has no idea what he has been charged for and his nightmarish quest to find out why remains as powerful as ever.
His characters struggle to find adequate nourishment.
From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Eyes Wide Shut, the spectre of Kafka hangs over the work of Stanley Kubrick.
For Franz Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.
Artists draw on their lives and their conflicts to produce their work. Thanks to psychobiography we can see how.
Franz Kafka was not well known during his lifetime, but his legacy provides a useful and necessary way to confront the current state of global affairs.
In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.
America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
In many cultures and religions dogs are more than protection and security. But do they have an after-life?
Watch The Shining after reading this and you may find that the Czech author haunts The Overlook Hotel just as much, if not more, than any of its regular spectral figures.
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