‘A Tested Man’: Franz Kafka, Inside Out
“Why don’t I stay within myself?” Franz Kafka wrote in his diary in May of 1910 in a fit of self-recrimination after committing “impertinences” toward a train conductor and one of his employers. He was referring to his inability to conceal his irritation and anger at a world that seemed designed to torture him. The question also applies to his writing, and if there’s an answer, it’s to be found at last, unabridged and unexpurgated, … [Lees verder]