The Mystery of the Seven Keys being set in prague, and the unending medical bureaucracy i continue to wrestle with every forty-eight hours, together have me thinking a lot about Kafka.
Borges, of course, gives us Kafka and his Precursors, a view on history that emphasizes the direction in which history is viewed—that is, from the present. Kafka's existence means in those writers preceding him we can find veins of absurdism; the word kafkaesque creates this highlight, causing new things to exist in works that have not changed. All writers work this way, all sequential authorships instilling meaning in retrograde. the torment nexus may be created because it was first conceived; but we remember its conception because of its creation. in this way, our world being absurdist makes kafka meaningful; in a world where the nightmare is not real, kafka ceases to be remembered