by Alan Bennett
First published 1986
In these two acclaimed one-act plays by Alan Bennett, the absurdist visions of Franz Kafka leap off the page. "Insurance Man" follows a hapless office worker trapped in a Kafkaesque bureaucracy, while "Kafka's Dick" imagines the writer himself visited by his literary creation. Blending the comical and the unsettling, these incisive works explore the human condition through the lens of Kafka's singular genius.
Genres: drama, plays, literary-fiction, 20th-century
Vibes: absurdist, atmospheric, dark, thought-provoking
Tropes: existential-crisis, surreal, trapped
Period: 20th-century
156 pages · Paperback · Faber & Faber