Kafka. The Trial. Metamorphosis. The "Kafkaesque."
Proust. Involuntary memory. The madeleine. Swan as family friend. Maman finally kisses him good night.
Beckett. Godot never comes. Absurd.
Lorca. Deep song & flamenco. Gay and killed by Franco. Body never found.
Cervantes. Fat and skinny guys tilting at windmills. "Quixotic." An etching by Picasso.
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Sometimes, when canonical writers come up in class, I ask the students if anyone has read them. Perhaps a few have, but if nobody has, then I ask them what they know about the writers in question. And there’s usually a few tidbits like the ones you list here. Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment. Dante: Inferno. Thomas Mann: Magic Mountain. Long sentences.
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