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I see that Franz Kafka's image as a depressive purveyor of existential alienation and despair is about to take a knocking. In fact, the author of such gloomy masterpieces as The Trial, The Castle and Metamorphosis was a fashion-conscious, fun-loving s

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From: Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland)
Date: 20080802
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I see that Franz Kafka's image as a depressive purveyor of existential alienation and despair is about to take a knocking. In fact, the author of such gloomy masterpieces as The Trial, The Castle and Metamorphosis was a fashion-conscious, fun-loving sybarite who also found time to further his literary career by courting influential friends. This news comes from biographer James Hawes, whose Excavating Kafka is published next week by Quercus and who says: "The real Franz Kafka was no angst-ridden paranoid but a well-groomed young man about town who frequented brothels, had regular ...

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