Vagrich Bakhchanyan s joke

Sergei Dovlatov. Prose writer and visionary Franz Kafka. September 22, 1984 065

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Sergei Dovlatov's speech on "Radio Liberty". September 1, 1984.
Broadcast "Culture, Fates, Time". We were born to make Kafka come true. How did Franz Kafka manage to discern the features of the coming real socialism with such artistic insight in his dark and surrealistic novellas? How did he manage to so accurately depict the social mechanisms of a totalitarian state in his prophecies long before its emergence?

TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 — Vagrich Bakhchanyan's joke
0:25 — We were born to make Kafka come true
0:40 — About Kafka's prophecy about the future of socialism
1:05 — Kafka's novel "The Trial"
2:40 — Joyce, Proust and Kafka
3:26 — Franz Kafka's biography
5:10 — Kafka's diaries and his letter to his father
6:30 — Franz Kafka's last will

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