Kafka and His Precursors
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"Kafka y sus precursores" (”Kafka and His Precursors”) is an essay by Jorge Luis Borges collected in Otras Inquisiciones (1952).
Borges lists six percursors to Kafka: Zeno, Han Yu, Kierkegaard, Robert Browning, Léon Bloy and Lord Dunsany.
The philosophical term "Borgesian conundrum" is named after Borges in connection with this essay.
See also
- Intertextuality
- Kafkaesque
- Zeno's paradox
- "The Castle"
- Han Yu
- Margouliès' Anthologie raisonnée de la littérature chinoise
- Kierkegaard
- A Short Life of Kierkegaard
- Browning's poem "Fears and Scruples", "And if this friend were... God?"
- Léon Bloy's "Histoires désobligeantes"
- "Carcassonne", Lord Dunsany, A Dreamer's Tales
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