Half a man, half a metaphor: the unknown Kafka.(Kafka: The Decisive Years)(Book review)

From: Harper's Magazine | Date: August 1, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

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Kafka: The Decisive Years, by Reiner Stach. Translated by Shelley Frisch. Harcourt. 581 pages. $35.

I awoke one morning to find myself transformed. I had been a man, but a man who was treated by my parents and my sister like a bug. Perhaps I was not so much an insect at my office; perhaps I was something else there, a blotter or a trash basket. Perhaps, like a bum, I was warned not to loiter when I was out on the avenue, or, while traveling on the train, I became just another newspaper or another sample case. Perhaps, to my boss, I was a worm. At ...

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