Kafka in Athens

Thu, Nov 13 2025, 5:30 - 7pm

Ciné, 234 W Hancock Avenue

Mark Harman, professor emeritus of German and English at Elizabethtown College and award-winning translator of Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person, The Castle, and most recently, Selected Stories, will give a talk and have a conversation on translation on Thursday, November 13, at 5:30 p.m. in Cine. The event is part of the Spotlight on the Arts festival, and Harman’s visit is in collaboration with the departments of English and comparative literature and intercultural studies, and The Georgia Review.

Of Selected Stories, published in 2024 by Harvard University Press, the Washington Post’s Pulitzer-winning critic Michael Dirda wrote that “you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka… if you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love him, you’ll still want Harman’s Selected Stories.”

Harman's article, "The Case for Renaming Kafka’s Metamorphosis as The Transformation," was published by Lit Hub in August, 2025.

He will be joined in conversation by Roland Végső, professor and head of the department of English.

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