Twelve Conversations about Kafka

For the centenary of his death in 2024.

Twelve Conversations about Kafka.

Thinking about humour, ecology, feminism, race and so much more. Part of Oxford reads Kafka.

Professor Karen Leeder, Former TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow, with Carolin Duttlinger  and Barry Murnane.

Oxford Humanities explores approaches to Kafka and his most famous story "The Metamorphosis": how the text has itself been transformed into new forms like ballet, theatre and comic books; how Kafka’s work has been read, from ecological insights to questions of illness, humour, feminism or race; how writers from across the world have responded to him from J. M. Coetzee to the 'Brazilian Kafka' Clarice Lispector or Marie NDiaye; and finally how artists have 'written back' to Kafka from their own time and place from the Czech Republic, Spain or even a viral Facebook novel in Russia.

Kafka's Metamorphosis

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