K. - Roberto Calasso Peter Valkenet In de verhalenbundel Eerste persoon

In de verhalenbundel Eerste persoon enkelvoud van Haruki Murakami verandert een toevallige ontmoeting op een raadselachtig wiskundig onderhoud dat de verteller decennia later nog bezighoudt

Hij moet de strijd aangaan met de eigenzinnige Godleys

are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human

Roissy–Charles-de-Gaulle

K. - Roberto Calasso Peter Valkenet In de verhalenbundel Eerste persoonWhat are Kafka's stories about? Are they dreams? Allegories? Symbols? Things that happen every day? But where and when? In this remarkable book, Roberto Calasso sets out not to dispel the mystery but to let it be illuminated by its own light. With his unique vision, imagination, and intellectual acumen, Calasso attempts to enter the flow, the tortuous movement, the physiology of the stories to discover what they are meant to signify and to delve into