When I read Bartleby, I made connections to Kafka's The Hunger Artist, but didn't think much of it.
Now, reading Tartarus of Maids, I realize that it intensely resembles Kafka's In The Penal Colony!
Has anyone else who's read these noticed the parallels? There's probably no evidence that Kafka read Melville, but the parallels are far too striking to ignore.
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I haven't read much Kafka, but I definitely thought of "The Hunger Artist" as well when reading "Bartleby"
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