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Author QuotedFranz Kafka
Title Quotedtrial / by Franz Kafka
Date (Year/Month/Day)1967/06/22
ImprintNew York : Modern Library. [1956, c1937]
QuotationFor me, the turning-on that fails abysmally with Beckett comes with Kafka. I discovered a lot of his little short pieces lately and they are fine. I hope to compare The Stranger and The Trial.
Quotation SourceThe Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns.; Selected and edited by William H. Shannon. / New York : Farrar Straus Giroux. 1985, p. 636
Letter toJune J. Yungblut
Notes 
Link to Merton's Copy 43103 

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