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Franz Kafka’s Best Friend

Kafka’s late story about a philosopher dog, like most of his stories about animals, is really about our lost humanity.
At first, freedom might seem like the ultimate goal. Yet Kafka suggests that when we’re free - without fixed paths or definitions - we may feel unmoored. The very liberty we crave becomes a kind of ...