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From: The Hudson Review
Date: 20060101
Author:Jarman, Mark

Dear H,

Prague has adopted Franz Kafka as its favorite literary son. Though experts on Bohemian taste will tell you that Karel Capek remains nearest and dearest to Czech readers, in Prague the modern writer who is most visible is the one who rendered the city as an anonymous nightmare place-a fact that is celebrated in the new Franz Kafka Museum in the Little Quarter, on the left bank of the Vltava River, below the Castle. On the river's right bank, in the Old Town, a restaurant and a café bear his name. The restaurant is located near where he was born, on a little square now also named for ...

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