To Read: The Cares of a Family Man

I haven't read this story, by Franz Kafka, but my friend was just telling me about it and it sounds very unsettling. A man describes, in detail, a star-shaped spool creature named Odradek that lives in hallways and attics:

"At first glance it looks like a flat star-shaped spool for thread, and indeed it does seem to have thread wound upon it; to be sure, they are only old, broken-off bits of thread, knotted and tangled together, of the most varied sorts and colors. But it is not only a spool, for a small wooden crossbar sticks out of the middle of the star, and another small rod is joined to that at a right angle." (I got that from Wikipedia! have you heard of it?)

The story is simply an account of what Odradek looks like, its customs, and its habitat. At the end, the narrator tells us he's worried that Odradek will outlive him.

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