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Now showing — Kafka on the Shore · 5 works

  • The Castle Books · 1920s

    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...

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • Kafka on the Shore Books · 2000s

    A boy runs away from home. A man talks to cats. Two stories converge in Murakami's dreamscape.

    MemoryMigrationFolklore
  • The Metamorphosis Books · 1910s

    A man wakes up as an insect. Alienation, family, and the absurd in 60 devastating pages.

    Urban isolationMemoryMigration
  • The Trial Books · 1920s

    A man is arrested and prosecuted by an inaccessible authority. Bureaucracy as existential nightmare.

    After-hoursPowerMemory
  • Court Film · 2010s

    A folk singer is accused of inciting suicide. India's judicial system observed with Kafka-like precision.

    After-hoursLongingUrban isolation
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  • Franz Schubert: “Arpeggione” Sonata D. 821 - Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Variations Op. 54, Cello Sonata Op. 104 Music
  • Satoshi Music
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