I Read Stories: The Great Wall of China
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| The actual Great Wall. |
This short story reads like Kafka riffing off some ideas of what the Great Wall could be or might be, and what China isn’t but is known to be – enormous, bureaucratic, centralised but also shattered, slow and inefficient, yet with a reason behind it. It will not tell you anything true about China or the Great Wall. It might give you something to think about.
Read This: For a minor bit of Kafka musing on incompleteness and delay.
Don’t Read This: For any information about actual China.
Available Online: In translation at this link.
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