A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” ...

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I am a disgusting, confused beetle. With growing fascination and a slight feeling ... “Whenever we were uncertain, the Franz Kafka Society helped us. The titles of the books on Gregor Samsa’s desk are ...