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Kafka and the Theater.
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Introduction
"Katka and the Theater--this conjunction does not refer to an easy alliance, let alone a kinship or similarity in purpose. At best, Kafka and the theater have had a history of contest, most visibly registered in the seemingly unending failures of theatrical Kafka adaptations and also perhaps in their few successes. It may be tempting to attribute these failures to the obvious truism that Kafka did hot write for the theater and that his texts therefore had to be dragged onto the stage against their and his will. However, if it were simply a matter of using ...
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