Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka
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Prague
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Prague The Old City
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The Judgment

• The Sons
• Punishments

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Father-son struggles

• James Joyce Ulysses
• Salman Rushdie
• The Satanic Verses

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Sigmund Freud

• Psychoanalysis
• Oedipus complex
• Repression

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Harold Bloom

• The Anxiety of Influence

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Novels

• The Trial
• The Castle
• Amerika

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Die Verwandlung

• The Transformation
• The Transfiguration
• The Transsubstantiation

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Samsa Kafka

• In Czech
• sám alone
• jsem I am

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ungeheuresUngeziefer

• enormous bug
• gigantic insect
• monstrous vermin

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It occurred to me that the artist might want
to draw the insect itself. Please, not that
anything but that! The insect itself cannot be
drawn. It cannot even be shown in the distance.
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Aristotle

• Complication
• Dénouement