Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, Anchor Books, 1998.
Using Kafkaesque devices, Atwood satirizes society's obsession with reproductive rights. In a strange future, women are valued only if their ovaries function.
Terry Gilliam, Brazil, Universal Studios, 1985.
Named as the best film of the year by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Brazil is the story of a bureaucratic cog named Sam Lowry and is often compared to Kafka's The Trial. Lowry's life is destroyed when an insect bug causes a typo on a print- out. Due to this accident,.....
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