Session Details

Sunday, 28 December

274. Kafka, Brecht, and Labor

12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Pacific Suite A, Marriott

Program arranged by the Kafka Society of America

Presiding: Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr, Temple Univ.

1. “Marsya’s Skin Grafts: Brecht-Kafka Palimpsests in Volker Braun’s Poetics of Survival,” Olaf Berwald, Univ. of North Dakota

2. “Denken als Dienstleistung: Von Kopflangern zu Handlangern in Brecht und Kafka,” Jens Klenner, Princeton Univ.

3. “Food Comes First: Labor and Poverty in Kafka and Brecht,” Nicola Behrmann, New York Univ.

Respondent: Judith L. Ryan, Harvard Univ.

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