The Kafka Effekt

The Kafka Effekt
Author D. Harlan Wilson
Cover artist Brandon Duncan
Country United States
Language English
Genre Irrealism, Bizarro fiction, Postmodernism
Publisher Eraserhead Press
Publication date
 November 2001
Media type Print
Pages 211 pp
ISBN 0-9713572-1-8
OCLC 49633671
Followed by Stranger on the Loose

The Kafka Effekt (2001) is the debut book of American author D. Harlan Wilson. It contains forty-four irreal short stories and flash fiction and has been said to combine the milieu's of Franz Kafka and William S. Burroughs. Along with Carlton Mellick III's Satan Burger, Vincent Sakowski's Some Things Are Better Left Unplugged, Hertzan Chimera's Szmonhfu, Kevin L. Donihe's Shall We Gather at the Garden? and M.F. Korn's Skimming the Gumbo Nuclear, The Kafka Effekt was among the first books jointly released by Bizarro fiction publisher Eraserhead Press. Pieces in this collection originally appeared in magazines and journals such as Redsine, Doorknobs & BodyPaint, The Dream Zone, The Dream People, Samsara Quarterly and The Café Irreal. The Kafka Effekt also includes the story "The Cocktail Party," which was adapted into a short film of the same name by graphic artist and filmmaker Brandon Duncan in 2006.

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The Kafka Effekt is a multigeneric pastiche of absurdism, magic realism, humor, surrealism, science fiction, postmodernism, horror, the airport novel, literary fiction and bizarro fiction. Wilson's characters consistently struggle to come to terms with the ultraviolence that distinguishes their daily lives. Stories often unite the aesthetics of pop culture and literary theory.

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