According to his biographer Frederick Karl, Franz Kafka “willingly experienced hell so that he could write.” His stories and novels have been called miraculous, disturbing, illogical and prophetic. We examine two of his longer stories (“The Metamorphosis” and “In the Penal Colony”) and two of his shorter pieces (“The Judgment” and “Before the Law”). Kafka’s literary influence has been compared to that of Shakespeare — let’s find out why.
Paula Kamenish is a retired UNCW award-winning professor who has taught for many years at OLLI. Besides literature, she also enjoys teaching tango and foreign languages.
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