this week

Starter Question for "The Metamorphosis" and "The Garden of Forking Paths"
For the Preface to Borges' Labyrinths.
...something that started as a nightmare. Kafka was a direct precursor of Borges. The Castle might be Borges, but he would have made it into a ten-page story, both out of lofty laziness and out of concern for perfection. -Andre Maurois

The Question: Both Kafka and Borges use the fantastic in their stories. Examine its use in each author's work. Why use the fantastic and unreal? What is the purpose for its use? In what ways are they similar and different in their approach to "unreal" situations?

Write a page to two pages.