Kafka is her favorite author, so I needed to get some Kafka in.
Kafka, and he's written about the absurdity of these kinds of situations, hence the Kafkaesque stories. There's a story literally about the situation that he wrote, perhaps predicted,
Kafka was for much of his adult life a lawyer with an insurance company.
Kaffa is a region, the kind of kingdom of Kaffa in the central Ethiopia.
Mutotwe Kafwaya, the former lawmaker, the husband to Edgar Lungu's
In Kafka's work, power is obscured, hidden.
In Kafka's work, power presents itself suddenly, brutally, and mysteriously, sometimes using surveillance in the process.
She goes kaffir limes, which are bright, and green, and beautiful.
This is why Kafka, not Orwell, is the great writer for today, though Orwell has plenty to recommend him.
it's it's Kafkaesque Jonathan a and uh he has a little bit of trouble with uh
This is makrut lime leaves or kaffir lime leaves.
And this is an especially circular and Kafkaesque line of argument.
wakes up one day in the Kafka story and finds that he's turned into an insect.
I started to feel a bit like Gregor Samsa from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis." You know, the book about the guy who turns into this beetle creature.
- Yeah, Franz Kafka, you know, a lot of the stories he wrote, never published, and he asked for all of them to be
Oh, that's kaffir lime.
Wolf, Kafka, Montaigne, Frost, Gravel, memoirs of cancer patients, anything by anyone who had ever written about mortality.
And it's a great onomatopoeic link to say Kaffa, coffee, which is not actually true.
So we discuss it all, from the Kafkaesque situation he's in the midst of in France, to the rollercoaster of his life and career,
and will be different in this case compared to the story you told from Kafka.
- I mean, it does sound like a very Kafkaesque- - It's- - ... thing.
And I started off that first summer in France with 'The Trial' by Kafka, which is what I was reading, and is
like somebody like Andy Warhol uh his name has sort of kind of like Kafka has moved into this different
understand what it means her writing has been compared to Thomas Pynchon's and Franz Kafka's and her first novel atmospheric disturbances received great
But the health system itself is a headache wrapped in red tape inside the nightmare that Franz Kafka himself might have dreamed up while
And then, and then there is a lot of grotesque and Kafkaesque things happening because at some point they tell you something,
it's one of the many lessons I've learned. Hearing your Kafka story is funny, because fast-forwarding to how my writing career ended—
- I mean, but it does, as Kafka describes, break a lot of people with time. So when do you hope... We should say that you were
But there's so much essential oils in the skins that it still smells and tastes like kaffir lime, which I'm sure all of you have had kaffir
Herbs, or like nutmeg, the kaffir, lemon zest, just to give it some brightness.
And also, she makes a Peking version that has pretty much more kaffir lime leaves in it.
They have a different mentality that still I don't understand, but it was kind of Kafka-ian.
classical literature. So, I did Kafka and Joyce and Shakespeare and Cervantes. And then, I realized I could
intellectually um so some of that my job experiences are in there but they taken much more to like this Kafkaesque level
complet PhD moments I like to talk about it in terms of the way that Walter Benjamin talks about Kafka's relation to
No one realized that he was the drug guy. So it's not easy to find stuff in the archives. The archives you go to, it's a very Kafkaesque experience.
But I have no idea how broken the criminal justice system was until I actually became a rape survivor and had to walk through this Kafkaesque labyrinth myself.
So no. I mean, I don't know who my influences are, probably more Beckett, probably more Kafka, probably Woody Allen, the Marx Brothers, Monty Python,
Yeah. But I prefer just to get the red as your base ground and then add fresh kaffir lime leaves in it.
It was very like being in the castle, you know, a little bit Kafka-ian.
Boom, coffee. Khaldi, most stories, is from Kaffa.
And now it's a second trial, which is, it's, it makes even Kafka pale by comparison because