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Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka

Paying close attention to Kafkaesque style Olsen brings his own distinctive narrative prose and finds a balance between retelling and reinventing. For me the most satisfying aspect was the genuineness of the story. It didn't feel like Kafka but yet i...

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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Counterpoint; First Edition edition (February 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781593761356
ISBN-13: 978-1593761356
ASIN: 159376135X
Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.5 x 7 inches
Amazon Rank: 3107354
Format: PDF ePub djvu book

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Anxious Pleasures takes Franz Kafka's profoundly haunting and sad comic novella, The Metamorphosis, and reanimates it through the vantage points of those who surrounded Gregor Samsa during his plight. All the familiar characters are here, including the hysterical mother, stern father, faithless sister, and the pragmatic household cook. But we are also introduced to, among others, the would-be author downstairs who daydreams of the narrative he ma...

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