Language Dislodged
ACLA Seminar, Georgetown U., March 7th-10th, 2019
Organized by Ian Thomas Fleishman (UPenn) and Dominik Zechner (NYU)
“I could conceive of another Abraham,” Kafka writes in a letter to a friend, “who was prepared to satisfy the demand for a sacrifice immediately, with the promptness of a waiter, but was unable to bring it off because he could not get away, being indispensable; the household needed him, there was perpetually something or other to put in order, the house was never ready; for without having his house ready, without having something to fall back on, he could not leave. This the Bible also realized, for it says: ‘He set his house in order.’”