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Audio Interview with Frederick Karl
about Franz Kafka

In this 1991 interview, Frederick Karl discusses his biography of Franz Kafka called Franz Kafka: Representative Man. Karl also discusses Kafka's life growing up in Prague, receiving a law degree and working for an insurance company where he investigated individuals with constant disasters. Kafka is one of the few authors to have given his name to a word, Kafkaesque, which means surreal distortion, or as Karl tells Don, a force in the world that is antipathetic of individual.

Listen to the Frederick Karl interview with Don Swaim, December 19, 1991
(39 min. 49 sec.)

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For many years most of the best writers of the English language found their way to Don Swaim's CBS Radio studio in New York. Wired for Books is proud to webcast these interviews in RealAudio.

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