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From: Weekend All Things Considered (NPR)
Date: 19980425
Author:Jacki Lyden, Washington, DC

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JACKI LYDEN, HOST: When you think of the Czech writer Franz Kafka, if you think of the Czech writer Franz Kafka, you probably think "abstract, Doerr, Gregor Samsa (ph), waking up as that big, giant cockroach." What you more rarely feel is the comic genius in Franz Kafka.

But now it should be easier. A new edition of his last book "The Castle" is the closest yet at capturing Kafka's original voice. When Kafka died in 1924, he left "The Castle" as an unfinished fragment.

His friend and literary executor Max Broad (ph) took the book and ...

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