Kafka In Russia

Kafka In Russia

Kafka’s recent entry into Russia has a history of its own. For several decades the visionary from Prague belonged—theoreticall he still belongs—to the Unholy Trinity of Proust, Joyce, and Kafka. This Trinity has been condemned in Russia on every possible occasion, until it became a classical negative cliche, a literary equivalent to the Trotsky-Zinoviev-Bukharin bloc…

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