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Exploring an Engaging Story in this Novel

Sharib on Instagram: "‘‘I am not a person; to come close to me is to lose the ground— you fall through me.’’ . . . . Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucr

we[dot]art on Instagram: "Canadian songwriter, singer, poet and novelist Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) reflects on his daily creative routine in a 1988 interview for the Off Beat show. Cohen is often seen as a defining figure of twentieth-century culture, moving between literature and popular music with a rare sense of purpose. His work draws on philosophy, religion and political history, returning repeatedly to questions of love, belief, desire, authority and moral responsibility through careful, d