LITERATURE: Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka is a guide to some very dark feelings most of us know well concerned with powerlessness, self-disgust and anxiety. This literary genius turned the stuff of nightmares into redemptive, consoling art. SOCIAL MEDIA Produced in collaboration with Mike Booth and Carla Pereira

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