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Kafka on the Shore
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Court
Carries a strong pull into music through after-hours and longing.
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Franz Schubert: “Arpeggione” Sonata D. 821 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Variations Op. 54, Cello Sonata Op. 104
Carries a strong pull into film through after-hours and longing.
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Gimma gimma
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The Castle
Carries a strong pull into film through memory and South Asia.

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Kafka on the Shore
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Court
2010s
A folk singer is accused of inciting suicide. India's judicial system observed with Kafka-like precision.
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The Trial
1920s
A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.
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The Metamorphosis
1910s
A man wakes up as an insect. Alienation, family, and the absurd in 60 devastating pages.
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Franz Schubert: “Arpeggione” Sonata D. 821 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Variations Op. 54, Cello Sonata Op. 104
2000s
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The Castle
This book is the earliest and most influential of the Gothic novels. First published pseudonymously in 1764, The Castle of Otranto purported to be a translation of an Italian story of the time of the crusades. In it Walpole attempted, as he declared in the Preface to the second edition, "to blend the two kinds of ro...
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Music 2010s
Kafka On The Shore
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Beautiful but Empty
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Gimma gimma