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Kafka on the Gulf: Male Identity, Space, and Globalization in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King and Arnon Grunberg’s The Man without Illness

Kafka on the Gulf: Male Identity, Space, and Globalization in Dave Eggers’s A Hologram for the King and Arnon Grunberg’s The Man without Illness

In 2012, two curiously similar novels appeared in the Netherlands and the United States: Dave Eggers's A Hologram for the King and Arnon Grunberg's The Man without Illness. Both feature Western male protagonists who travel to the Gulf region for business purposes and...

Picking up the pieces

Picking up the pieces

History and Memory in European Digital Literature Yra van Dijk University of Leiden, the Netherlands “[W]hat is no longer archived in the same way is no longer lived in the same way.” Jacques Derrida, “Archive Fever” (18) Two of the major functions of literature are...