KAFKA, HAWTHORNE, AND COETZEE Environmental Studies Essay
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They speak to a hidden aspect of our own lives and they have an outsized power to shake us up and make us consider our relationship with our family, with society, and with ourselves. His work is to some extent prefigured by the work of Hawthorne in the Scarlet Letter as will be discussed below, but is in other ways sui generis. The impact of a massive machinery moving against a single person, crushing them without reason, is a hall-mark of the Kafkaesque and can now be found in much contemporary literature, in particular in Coetzee's The Life and Times of Michael K.