The Great Wall of China

Name: The Great Wall of China
Author: Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

Translated by Ian Johnston

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A narrator reflects on the fragmentary wall—Kafka's parable of bureaucracy, leadership, and empire (Ian Johnston translation).

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