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Reading Kafka's Love Letters as a Key to His Mind; Kafka; The Decisive Years

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From: Forward
Date: 20051230
Author:Kellman, Steven G.

Kellman, Steven G.
Forward
12-30-2005
Steven G. Kellman teaches comparative literature at The University of Texas
at San Antonio and is the author, most recently, of "Redemption: The Life
of Henry Roth" (W.W. Norton & Company).

'I am nothing, absolutely nothing," declared Franz Kafka, who longed to
contract his life into a perfect sentence. Eighty-one years after his
death, we've got plenty of nothing. Posthumous publication of thousands of
pages of his letters, diaries and fiction fragments transformed an obscure
Jewish insurance manager who lived in Prague but spoke German into an icon
of the ...

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