September 22, 2022
Becoming Vermin Perhat Tursun as a Franz Kafka Character
Darren Byler
The imprisoned Uyghur author and poet Perhat Tursun hates it when people call him “the Uyghur Franz Kafka.” He thinks Uyghur writers should be recognized as world-class intellectuals on their own terms, not as derivative world literature representatives of a...