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Stefan Zweig and Franz Kafka: a study in contrast.

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From: Modern Age
Date: 20050922
Author:Roshwald, Mordecai

STEFAN ZWEIG (1881-1942) and Franz Kafka (1883-1924) could have been expected to have much in common and to belong to the same category in modern literature. Born only two years apart, they belong to the same epoch. Although Zweig was born in Vienna and Kafka in Prague, both wrote in German, and Prague, though the center of the Czech region, was till 1918 a city in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Both authors happened to be Jewish and retained a positive attitude to Judaism, which may have influenced their writing, even if it did not dominate it.

Yet, anybody examining any of the ...

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