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Thursday 18 March 2021

The Write Advice 148: FRANZ KAFKA

 
You say you would like to sit beside me while I write.  Listen, in that case I could not write at all.  For writing means revealing oneself to excess, that utmost of self-revelation and surrender… that is why one can never be alone enough when one writes… why even night is not night enough.
 
Letter to his fiancée Felice Bauer [c 1915]
 
 
 
Use the link below to read about the life and work of German speaking Czech writer FRANZ KAFKA (1883–1924):

 
 
 
 
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