“Who Owns Kafka?”
April 27th, 2011 Comments Off
“Kafka remained not only in two minds about Jewishness, but sometimes quite clearly torn apart. ‘What have I in common with Jews?’ he wrote in a diary entry in 1914. ‘I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.’”
That’s Judith Butler on Kafka’s “poetics of non-arrival” in the London Review of Books, March 3. Read it all.
