The long-awaited Kafka seminar is here! We'll meet every other week on Tuesday evenings at Strong Rope Brewery for Olios that bring Kafka into the modern-day, shedding light on topics such as sexual perversion and capitalism. Led by Geoff Klock, this seminar is intended to give you a handle on the guy who Harold Bloom said, alongside Proust and Freud, dominated the 20th century.

**Don't worry if you missed the last session!

Each of these will be just as educational (and enjoyable) as a standalone lecture!**

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Three things to know about Kafka. First, his friend asked him if he believed in a spiritual world, and Kafka replied that he thought there was only one world, and then added that the one world he was thinking of WAS the spiritual world — the physical world, he said, was the Evil in the spiritual world. The other thing to know about Kafka is that when he read his stories people roared with laughter — we have lost the COMIC absurdity of his stuff. Third, David Lynch’s character in Twin Peaks has two pictures on his office wall: Kafka and a nuclear bomb going off.

Kafka’s The Trial: Guilt and the (Almost) Sexual Perversion of Justice

“Someone must have been spreading lies about Joseph K for one morning he was arrested, though he had done nothing wrong.” Kafka’s best novel is a story about free floating guilt, extra terrible because it is not attached to any particular act; and justice, which is smeared with private perversity. Bonus: Orson Welles made a movie of the Trial in 1962 starring Anthony Perkins from Hitchcocks’s Psycho and it's amazing. Lesser Bonus: David Lynch’s guy Kyle MacLachlan starred in a 1993 version of The Trial with Anthony Hopkins, Alfred Molina and David Thewlis?

Come to class with quotes from The Trial that you'd like to discuss!