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I love reading Franz Kafka (1883-1924), a master story-teller. Thanks to his classic novels, The Metamorphosis and The Trial, “Kafkaesque” is now a synonym for senseless, disorienting and bizarre storylines with menacing complexity. Take The Trial, where Kafka writes about Josef K, who wakes up one morning, gets arrested, then prosecuted for an unspecified crime. Now, the real-life developments in an Italian court would easily have failed even Franz Kafka’s imagination, I bet.

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