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Replica of Franz Kafka's personal library moves to Prague

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20020507
Author:KAREL JANICEK, Associated Press Writer

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Dateline: PRAGUE, Czech Republic A replica of the personal library of Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, was presented in a ceremony Tuesday to a literary society in the writer's native Prague.

Donated by the German carmaker Porsche, the collection consists of some 1,000 books, magazines, almanacs and anthologies which replicate the materials Kafka owned before his death in 1924.

Porsche purchased the collection valued at 130,000 euros (dlrs 120, 000) from a German antiques dealer who had spent years reconstructing it, and handed it over ...

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