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Frank Freeman's avatar

Enjoyed this, Seth. Made me wonder what digging to the root would mean. It seems as if that is what Kafka does in his writing. And that liminality is the human condition. Which is not as satisfying perhaps as a theory or religion or philosophy, but seems to be the case.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

An excellent introduction to the periods of the life and work and the key issue of liminality - of being at the margin of the margins, which so much saturates the mid-period work, particularly the Chinese parables and the short pieces with Talmudic inspiration.

Do you feel this ties in with the Deleuze and Guattari concept of Minor Literature which they believe (and I'm pretty convinced of) is central to Kafka's work?

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