{"id":516,"date":"2007-03-08T00:17:09","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=516"},"modified":"2007-03-08T00:17:09","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:17:09","slug":"jonathan-lethemcarter-scholz-kafka-americana-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/?p=516","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lethem\/Carter Scholz &#8211; Kafka Americana (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/wp-content\/c1349.jpg\" alt=\"Kafka Americana\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/> From Jonathan Lethem, who recently masterfully argued the fruitfulness of apropriating someone else&#8217;s intellectual property and turning it into something original of one&#8217;s own, and Carter Scholz, whom I hadn&#8217;t heard of before, comes this set of reinventions of Kafka&#8217;s themes with the frame of American culture. Witty, dark and unexpected, these stories toy with great ideas in a very delightful way. My favorite of the bunch is easily Lethem&#8217;s and Scholz&#8217; collaboration on the story of how Kafka and Capra collaborated to make &#8220;It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life&#8221;. Great stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Jonathan Lethem, who recently masterfully argued the fruitfulness of apropriating someone else&#8217;s intellectual property and turning it into something original of one&#8217;s own, and Carter Scholz, whom I hadn&#8217;t heard of before, comes this set of reinventions of Kafka&#8217;s themes with the frame of American culture. Witty, dark and unexpected, these stories toy with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,37,1,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-englisch","category-europe","category-misc","category-must-see"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genista.de\/engine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}