THE JESSICA JOURNALS

Franz Kafka's tragic allegory for dehumanisation takes our October book club spot. Context Written in early 20th-century Prague, during the Austro-Hungarian Empire, where Kafka lived as a German-speaking Jew in a predominantly Czech-speaking city, the novella perhaps draws from Kafka’s experience of cultural isolation. He was surrounded by rising anti-Semitism and tension between Czechs, Germans and Jews. This unrest manifests itself in Gregor Samsa, the protagonist. Kafka wa

This September we read Ottessa Moshfegh's controversial 2018 novel, My Year of Rest and Relaxation.