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Kafka And Dostoevsky: Was ‘The Trial’ A Hidden Rewriting Of ‘Crime And Punishment’?

photo of a metal statue of Franz Kafka in Prague
Franz Kafka's statue in Prague Aziz Karimov/Pacific Press/ZUMA

A Colombian student of Franz Kafka insists works by the 20th century Czech author, like The Trial, are so close to Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as to be versions of it — creating potential trouble for European publishing houses.

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