FRANZ KAFKA'S NON-IDENTITY: JEWISH IRONY IN EXTREMIS

"What have I common with Jews? I have hardly anything in common with myself ...."

-- Franz Kafka, 8 January 1914, Diaries 1914-1923

"Are you as lonely as that?" I asked....

"....I'm as lonely as ... as Franz Kafka."

--Franz Kafka

--Gustav Janouch, Conversations with Kafka,
translated by Goronwy Rees (London: Andre Deutsch, 1971), p. 70

Cited in: Robert, Marthe. Franz Kafka's Loneliness, translated by Ralph Manheim. London: Faber & Faber, 1982. Pp. v, 81.

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Ralph Dumain
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