Why you should read Kafka before you waste your life : Hawes, J. M. (James M.), author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveSkip to main content
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Everybody know the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images; bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely know in his own lifetime bears no resemblance to the historical reality
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-238) and index
The way things were -- Into the locked bookcase -- Myth-making at work -- The stages of the myth -- Kafka and Felice : nothing to do with sex -- Kafka and Milena : all about sex -- Why the myth must go -- An end and a beginning