A speech given by David Foster Wallace at "Metamorphosis: A New Kafka", a symposium sponsored by the PEN American Center in New York City to celebrate the publication of a new tranlation of the Castle by Shocken Books. Published in Harper's magazine in 1998.
In this, Wallace discusses the unique humor of Kafka, and the difficulty of communicating this humour to college students.
There is a noticeable connection between this speech and his essay 'Television and U.S. Fiction', as he describes part of the difficulty in communicating Kafka's humor being American culture's connection to art and entertainment as an escape.
Link to the article: harpers.org/wp-content/uploads...
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This was a nice and short recording that I was able to get out quickly. Kafka is one of my favorite writers, and I find him hilarious!