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The Kafka Studies Department
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.50
ISBN13: 9781956474275
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Knowledge is not power, power is not power. Life is irrational or accidental or both. We drift victims, victimizers. A collection for our time.
-Joan Baum, NPR
A collection of bleak and amusing literary short stories from Levy...A dark, sometimes funny, meditation on the absurd trials of life.
-Kirkus Reviews
Francis Levy has an unhampered, endearingly maverick imagination-as if Donald Barthelme had met up with Maimonides and, together, they decided to write about the world as it appeared to them. These deceptively simple and parable-like stories are full of wily pleasures and irreverent wisdom about everything from the failure of insight to make anything happen, to the subtle gratifications of friendship, to the tragicomedy of eros.-Daphne Merkin, author of This Close to Happy and 22 Minutes of Unconditional Love
Francis Levy's fiction is knowing but never instructive. His characters inhabit a twilight zone where the lines blur between dream and waking, familiar and surreal, inevitability and surprise. -Rocco Landesman, Broadway producer and former Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
The Kafka Studies Department is not about academia. It's about anomie, and...what's really going on with people. Of course (since it's Levy) it's about sex. Kafka's shadow is everywhere. -David Kirkpatrick, journalist and author of The Facebook Effect
A startling collection of thirty literary gems deftly illustrated by Hallie Cohen into dreamy sketches, which perfectly suit the tone of the work. Initially it seems like these stories are fed into a kind of a magical Kafka Cuisinart where they come out tightly sealed, hilariously ironic, and occasionally mysterious...modern parables that have the makings of mini-masterpieces. -Arthur Nersesian, author of The Five Books of Moses and The Fuck-Up
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