Benjamin's letter as the inaugural moment
Despite Benjamin's disavowal, Holocaust literature has conferred upon Kafka a prophetic power, and we may assign Benjamin's letter as the inaugural moment in the association of Kafka wth the prophetic and apocalyptic that obtained through the course of the century.
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