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Taking as its starting-point the mysterious and ambiguous Kafka figure of Odradek, the essay reflects upon what might be a modernism for the 21st century. It argues that, contrary to the death certificate issued by the postmodernist tide, we are currently witnessing a process of expansion through the inclusion of other players, cultures and locations into the modernist pantheon on the one hand, and the undoing of borders with different registers, poetics and literary periods and movements on the other.