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The most stable regime in all of Jewish history.
April 24, 2023
Franz Kafka Was Ambivalent about Judaism—but Much Less So Than about Many Other Things
“Even his kvetching shows a certain originality of perception.”
The diaries of the Prague-born novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka have recently been published in English in their complete and unexpurgated form. In his review, Robert Alter emphasizes the literary value of this unpublished work, and examines what it conveys about its enigmatic author. There are, for instance, Kafka’s neurotic tendencies:
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Franz Kafka Was Ambivalent about Judaism—but Much Less So Than about Many Other Things
“Even his kvetching shows a certain originality of perception.”