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    "title": "Franz Kafka",
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    "description": "<p>A highly original and engaging appraisal of Kafka&rsquo;s life, work, legacy, and thought Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence&mdash;in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Kafka&rsquo;s personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedl&auml;nder probes major aspects of Kafka&rsquo;s life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka&rsquo;s dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka&rsquo;s closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author&rsquo;s novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedl&auml;nder shows that, when reinserted in Kafka&rsquo;s letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of &ldquo;sainthood&rdquo; frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.</p>",
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