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Kafka Would Have Said “Pfaw!”

27 December, 2007 by Amit Varma

This is quite possibly the literary quote of the year:

Would Kafka have put up with this? Would Henry James?

—Ian McEwan about the Booker banquet. Ian, thank your lucky stars it’s not a reality show yet.

I got the quote from here, where the best and worst literary quotes of the year are collected.

(Link via Prufrock’s Page.)

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Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai. He has been a journalist since 2001, and won the Bastiat Prize for Journalism in 2007 and 2015. He writes the blog India Uncut and hosts the weekly podcast, The Seen and the Unseen.

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