Current Affairs Kafka-Borges festival opens in Prague this week
"One morning Gregor Samsa awoke from troubled dreams to find himself transformed into a giant beetle...." One of the most famous opening lines in world literature, Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis. Now if you're a fan of Prague's greatest literary son, it will be well worth coming to the Czech capital in the next few weeks. The Argentine Embassy, Prague's Jewish Museum, the Kafka Society, and the Charles University have come together to organise an unusual Kafka festival. It aims to celebrate Kafka's life and work, but from a rather different angle, putting it into the context of a writer from the other end of the world, the great Argentine master of the short story, Jorge Luis Borges.
Milos Pojar
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