Crucibles: The Orchestration of Surprise
An essay from AGNI 67
“Kafka fuses old-fashioned storytelling—a reliance on motives, histories, and consequences—with a dizzyingly open-ended creating that feels like the generative impulse itself. He writes like a guide with a candle in his hand, and each move to the side, or backwards, reveals not just some new thing, but a new thing as a thing-in-itself—not object, but subject, new being, a fresh bubble of unexpected substance and will.”
