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Kafka and his world.(Book Review)

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20050201
Author:Radice, Anthony

Kafka. Nicholas Murray. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]20.00. vii + 440 pages. ISBN 0-316-72479-3.

Where exactly does Franz Kafka belong? This was a question which occupied this most alienated of modern masters to the point of distraction; it was a question which proved artistically fruitful, if often personally painful. It is a question which the biographer of Kafka must address with some thoroughness. Mr Murray proves in this book how stimulating personal history can be as a way into general history. The reader will be enlightened on many fascinating minutiae of European ...

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