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Everybody knows 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 Kafkas genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own lifetime bears no resemblance to the historical reality. Franz Kafka was a popular and well-connected millionaires son who enjoyed good-time girls, brothels, and expensive porn, who landed a highly desirable state job that pulled in at least $90,000 a year in todays dollars for a six-hour day, who remained a loyal member of Pragues German-speaking Imperial elite right to the end, and whose work was backed by a powerful literary clique. Here are some of the prevalent Kafka myths: *Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime. *Kafka was lonely. *Kafka was stuck in a dead-end job, struggling to find time to write. *Kafka was tormented by fear of sex. *Kafka was unbendingly honest about himself to the women in his life too honest. *Kafka had a terrible, domineering father who had no u

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Author

Hawes, J. M. (James M.), author

Publisher

New York: St. Martin's Press;

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312376512

Category

reference

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.44 / 5 (113 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14