Kafka's Odradek: three imaginings

<<In the Kafka story, Odradek is a small, mysterious creature whose name, of German or Slavic origin, refers to a wooden spool of thread, “flat and star-shaped.” It’s the sort of thing you might find in a drawer full of junk or the dusty crevices of a stairway — an insignificant but enigmatic remnant emblematic of nothing and everything in existence.>> [source]

art: Elena Villa Bray

'I can't draw a sharp distinction between the prosaic and the spectral, between the factual and the fantastic, and by extension between the documentary and the imaginary,' he has commented. art: Jeff Wall.

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art:  Leonardo Castaño

Jean-Claude Milner notes in, "Odradek, la bobine de scandale," that the odradek is also part of an anagram for the Greek word dodekaedron. This interpretation of the word is as well consistent with the fact that Odradek seems to be a broken-down remnant of something.