Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)-Edited by Max Brod-Schocken...
...when Franz Kafka was 26, he began keeping a diary. His personality was already obsessed by anxieties that he never shook off, and his writing was a presentiment of his later books. These diaries are more than a personal record; they seem to illuminate large areas of modern life and literature. Nothing quite like them has appeared in this century...
...writing "all my anxiety entirely out of me" and by jotting down whatever transient impression or narrative fragment entered his mind, Kafka hoped to achieve an emotional catharsis. In an early entry, he said of his writing that "my doubts stand in a circle around every word." He might have added-around every deed. Kafka was a man impaled on the spears of scruple: he could not be satisfied with the approximations of truth most men accept, but had to burrow into them and try to redefine them...
...power of conviction or mastery; we permit ourselves everywhere to be overwhelmed by the accidents of our massive ignorance and by the apparent subjectivity of our individual processes ... It is a world alive and moving but which does not understand itself . . . Shaw is as difficult as Joyce, Mann as Kafka, if you really look into them. The difficulties arise . . . partly because of the conditions of society . . . The audience is able to bring less to the work of art than under the conditions of the old culture, and the artist is required to bring more . . . almost the whole job of culture...
Mile--Won by Gurley (H); 2, Jackson (BU); 3, O'Donnell (HC); 4, Kafka (H). Time...