![]() We’re all insects, all Ungeziefer, now.” -Zadie Smith, bestselling author of White Teeth and On Beauty What is Muslimness? What is femaleness? What is Polishness? These days we all find our anterior legs flailing before us. ![]() ![]() “Kafka’s survey of the insectile situation of young Jews in inner Bohemia can hardly be improved upon: ‘With their posterior legs they were still glued to their father’s Jewishness and with their wavering anterior legs they found no new ground.’ There is a sense in which Kafka’s Jewish question (‘What have I in common with Jews?’) has become everybody’s question, Jewish alienation the template for all our doubts. To Max Brod, his literary executor, Kafka wrote: “Of all my writings the only books that can stand are these.” ![]() From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial: A collection that brings together the stories he allowed to be published during his lifetime, including his best-known tale of a man who wakes up transformed into an insect. ![]()
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