"Kafka's ape, like all of us apparently, has become or tried to become a man by imitating what a man is. He has aped man, has followed his animal instinct for imitation, so that paradoxically he becomes a man by using his skills as an ape" (Thiher, Allen. "A Hunger Artist." Franz Kafka: A Study of the Short Fiction. Twayne Publishers, 1990. 80-96.).
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