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Hunt in the jackdaw. (Franz Kafka)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19880116
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EARLY in 1983 a young poet was summoned for no discernible reason to the secret-police building in Prague. His interrogator had only one question: "What are you going to do about the jackdaw (kafka)?" What?" asked the poet. "Well," replied the officer, "don't say you haven't been warned."

At that moment, just before the centenary of Franz Kafka's birth in Prague in 1883, Kakfa was still a non-person in his native city. None of his novels-"The Castle", "The Trial" or America"-was in print in Czechoslovakia. None has been published since. As a gesture for the centenary one ...

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