Kafka the Joker & Letter to a Friend

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  • The
  • early
  • 20th
  • century
  • left
  • him
  • thoroughly
  • alienated,
  • but
  • what
  • if
  • Franz
  • Kafka
  • came
  • back
  • to
  • exact
  • vengeance
  • on
  • a
  • 21st
  • century
  • that
  • was
  • even
  • less
  • to
  • his
  • liking?
  • Having
  • once
  • been
  • buried
  • in
  • the
  • roots
  • of
  • modernity,
  • Kafka
  • now
  • seeks
  • to
  • discipline
  • and
  • correct
  • a
  • near-future
  • not
  • quite
  • our
  • own,
  • and
  • he
  • does
  • so
  • with
  • a
  • smile.
  • Told
  • from
  • the
  • perspective
  • of
  • a
  • police
  • profiler
  • finally
  • getting
  • to
  • meet
  • her
  • literary
  • hero--in
  • his
  • jail
  • cell--"Kafka
  • the
  • Joker"
  • takes
  • a
  • nonsensical
  • situation
  • and
  • makes
  • it
  • mean
  • something."Letter
  • to
  • a
  • Friend"
  • uses
  • the
  • premise
  • of
  • private
  • correspondence
  • and
  • turns
  • it
  • into
  • a
  • series
  • of
  • essays--twisted
  • and
  • twisting,
  • insightful
  • and
  • inciting--which
  • ultimately
  • contribute
  • to
  • the
  • dystopia
  • already
  • laid
  • out
  • in
  • the
  • first
  • story.
  • The
  • lines
  • between
  • fact
  • and
  • fiction
  • are
  • blurred
  • even
  • further
  • as
  • a
  • new
  • "Underground
  • Man"
  • spins
  • a
  • whirlwind
  • treatise
  • about
  • technological
  • addiction,
  • politics,
  • serial
  • killers--everything
  • from
  • Rousseau
  • to
  • the
  • Unabomber--civilization
  • and
  • its
  • malcontents.Two
  • interlinked
  • fictional
  • experiments--presented
  • in
  • one ebook.
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