404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)

Author Robin Hemley joins Jacke for a discussion of Kafka, writerly ambition, and his new novel Oblivion: An After Autobiography, which tells the story of a midlist author who finds himself in the posthumous world where authors fade from obscurity into the world of Oblivion...unless they can manage to write their way out.

Additional listening suggestions:

• Episode 349 - Kafka's Metamorphosis (with Blume)
• Episode 139 - A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
• Episode 134 - The Greatest Night of Franz Kafka's Life

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