'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing
- Written by Linda Daley, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, RMIT University
Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.
The convention of the day would require him to lay out his credentials and his family’s...
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