This month marks the one hundredth anniversary of the death of one of the greatest writers in the German language, Franz Kafka - RTÉ Arena pays tribute to a literary master above.
Author of Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle, Kafka achieved little to no fame as a writer in his lifetime, but over the past century his nightmare worlds of ordinary people trapped in impenetrable bureaucratic mazes have prefigured our own modern existence, giving us the expression 'Kafkaesque'.
During the recent International Literature Festival Dublin, Daniel Medin, Professor of Comparative Literature at the American University of Paris, hosted an evening of readings and discussion commemorating the great writer - RTÉ Arena's Kay Sheehy met Daniel while he was in town.
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