A Year of Reading Kafka Begins...

Finally!

Hello everyone,

First, I want to apologise to all of you early birds who subscribed to this newsletter a while back and haven't heard anything since—mea maxima culpa. I have been procrastinating for at least six months. But, hey, all good things must begin at some point!

To recap what you may or may not have read before... The vision for this newsletter is to treat it as a public journal of sorts, a digital garden where I'll share whatever thoughts, musings, and discoveries arise from my journey through Kafka's complete works. The focus is on the process and evolution of ideas rather than any final, definitive product.

Obviously, I'm not aiming to produce a quintessential scholarly analysis or thesis on Kafka. No. This endeavour draws inspiration from a remark by literary theorist Roland Barthes, who suggested devoting an entire year to reading (or re-reading) a great literary classic, relating everything in one's life to that work:

Le Livre/la vie (prendre un livre classique et tout y ra…