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  • Klopstock, or the Distant Sound

  • Written by: Robert Cohen
  • Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
  • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
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Written by: Robert Cohen
Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
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In 1924, hoping to cure his illness, Franz Kafka traveled to a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, run by a Dr. Hugo Hoffman. He would spend his last days there. In Robert Cohen’s story, we see the end of Kafka’s life through Dr. Hoffman’s eyes. The doctor attempts to decipher the dying man’s enigmatic communications, scribbled on scraps of paper, while being harried by Kafka’s friend, Klopstock, and a young woman who has fallen in love with the then-unknown writer. As the case progresses, the once-practical and upstanding doctor gets pulled deeper and deeper into his strange patient's world.

Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.
©2013 Emerson College (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Historical Fiction Literary Fiction
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Ok

Ok, I guess. If I hadn’t read the description, I never would have guessed this historical fiction was about Kafka. Though there was enough strangeness for it to be.

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