Stephen Kessler | Shakespearean, Orwellian and Kafkaesque

Stephen Kessler | Shakespearean, Orwellian and Kafkaesque

The king whose vanity and arrogance bring madness, death and destruction to himself and everyone around him. The corruption of language in service to a totalitarian state, a corruption so complete that words are meant to mean their opposite. The inexplicable ordeal of an ordinary individual: an extrajudicial process that drags him through an incomprehensible labyrinth with no rational explanation; a grotesque transformation that negates his very…