The Girl with the Round Glasses
When Josef K is summoned to the trial, he is given the address of the courts but no specific time at which to make his appearance.…
Dust in Love
Sexuality is the fire; love and eroticism are the two flames emanating from that fire. This is the theme of Octavio Paz’s last book The Double…
Reflections on All Souls Day
— First draft: All Souls Day 2022. Published: 14 March 2023. In his novel ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being,’ Milan Kundera observes that animals don’t have…
My Homeland in the Imagination: An Homage to Salman Rushdie
What I found interesting and beautiful was that Kundera’s defence of Rushdie’s controversial novel wasn’t based on freedom of expression, instead, it was based on the art of the novel.
The Trial of David B.
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done anything truly wrong, he was arrested.” — Franz Kafka, “The Trial” I was reminded…
Journeys to Beautiful Oblivion
1. Before he becomes aware of the truly awe-inspiring nature of death, every young man romanticizes death. In his book The Book of Laughter and Forgetting,…
Pascal Dufaux’s Machines
Pascal Dufaux’s machines evoke to my mind the best of science fiction. Their organic yet metallic shapes suggest that they could be probes which have been…
Kafka’s Computer
Franz Kafka was a nice man. As a bureaucrat working for an insurance company he developed safety measures that helped avoid many industrial accidents. But as…
A short reflection on love
Late one evening, I waited for her outside the public showers of the campground where we were staying with her family. As I waited, I watched…