![]() They did not stand up to authority to make a point. Neither Lenka Reinerová nor Earl Sampson are heroes. It’s true that Sampson has spent a lot of time at 207 Quickstop. He has also been arrested for trespassing 62 times, with most of those arrests taking place at a store called 207 Quickstop. Sampson has been stopped by police 258 times and searched over 100 times in the last four years. Kafkarna is also familiar to certain 21st-century Americans, like Earl Sampson of Miami Gardens, Florida. In fact, the Czechs have a word, kafkarna, to describe that which is absurd and impossible to explain, but somehow seems inevitable. in The Trial, which somehow manages to tell the story of communist Czechoslovakia decades before it actually happens. The story is familiar, of course, because of Kafka: Reinerová is K. Years later, when she sought documentation on her case, the authorities told her that she probably imagined the whole thing. After her release she found that her family had been evicted and a stranger was now living in her apartment. When she asked, she was told, “You know better than anyone.” She spent 15 months in jail before being released without a trial. ![]() ![]() In the early ’50s, in Prague, the writer Lenka Reinerová was arrested and put in solitary confinement. ![]()
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