Something is usually said about Kafka in connection with Wise Blood, but I have never succeeded in making my way through The Castle or The Trial, and I wouldn't pretend to know anything about Kafka.

经常有人说到卡夫卡,与《慧血》之间的联系，但我从来没有成功地,读懂《城堡》或者《审判》,我不会假装我了解卡夫卡的一切。

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And again, Kafka invites us to imagine waking up into a body of a cockroach and we can.

这里,卡夫卡再次带领我们去想象,一觉醒来却变成一只甲虫的场景,而我们是可以想象到的

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She says that she has read a little bit of Kafka and "doesn't know what to make of him, but it makes you a bolder writer."

她说她读一点点卡夫卡的作品,而且“不知道是什么造就了卡夫卡，但这可以让自己成为,一个更大胆的作家“

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

I tell my freshman students here all the time when my freshman seem on the tragedy when come again the political plays of Franz Kafka, Chehev.

我总是告诉新生,当他们在阅读像卡夫卡，契科夫,的政治剧作遇到困难时。

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One of the great short stories of the last century begins with a sentence by Franz Kafka: "As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect."

上世纪最伟大的短篇小说之一,弗朗茨·卡夫卡所写的名篇是这样开头的,"一天早晨,格里高尔·萨姆沙,从不安的睡梦中醒来,发现自己躺在床上,变成了一只巨大的甲虫"

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