Living with Kafka’s Asbestos Factory: Sights, Sounds and Textures


This talk is also available online (Microsoft Teams). Please email kafka@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you have mobility / access needs.

In this talk, Arthur Rose (Exeter University) will revisit earlier work on the reception of Franz Kafka’s part ownership of an asbestos factory to think about the sights, sounds and textures that Kafka’s biography and works conjure up. This hybrid event is organised by the AHRC-funded project Kafka’s Transformative Communities and all are welcome.