“Kafka was a son of Prague to his phthisic fingertips”

October 12, 2013

“Repressed homosexual yearnings certainly would account for some of the more striking of [Franz] Kafka’s darker preoccupations,” writes John Banville in his investigation of the writer’s personal life and psychology.

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