Nice Jewish Girls by Evelyn Torton Beck5/19/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In a post-Holocaust world, these themes continue to resonate: surface normality and control over one’s fate is illusory, the workings of the world incomprehensible. ![]() His anxieties have become a mirror for our own: among them, issues of ethnic, racial, religious, sexual, gender identities interrogations of masculinity and body image, vegetarianism, sexuality and violence, animal avatars. His stories have been made into comic books, plays, cartoons, even for children. His name, immortalized in the adjective “Kafkaesque” can be found in Time magazine as well as The New York Times and is widely used even by those who have never read a word of his writings. No one could have foretold that today he would be considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century whose resonance extends well into the 21st. Why Kafka? Why Now? When Kafka died in 1924 at the age of forty, he was an obscure writer whose work was known only to a few intellectuals. ![]()
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