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This course, taught in English, is devoted to study of the fiction of Franz Kafka, of his literary and philosophical context, and of his place in European and German modernism. We will read novels and short stories by Kafka alongside philosophical, critical, and literary responses to his works. We will explore themes of knowledge and truth, the nature of reality, perception and attention, power and forms of law, imagination, animality, the self, and the thematization of writing in his works. While the section one of this course is taught in English with texts in translation, a second section may be available for students wishing to read and discuss Kafka in the original German.