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SCOTT HORTON-In Pursuit of Kafka's Porn Cache: Six questions for James Hawes |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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James Hawes had a brilliant start to his career as a novelist with A White Merc with Fins, and he's gone on to have one of his works filmed and to write a work of biting satire. But before Hawes was a novelist, he was a Kafka scholar. And now he has returned to his old passion with a book entitled Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life (published as Excavating Kafka in Britain). The book has kicked up a storm in Germany, where its satirical style has gone unappreciated. I put six questions to James Hawes about Franz Kafka and a book designed to debunk the Kafka mythmakers which is accused of making some of its own. . . .
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