Friday, April 07, 2006

The Kafka Problem

Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to destroy his writing after his death. Max Brod refused this request. Still, Kafka asked him again to burn his unpublished writings. Max Brod didn't. Some might wish he had, for Kafka does give us a hard time trying to understand! But can you imagine literature without a Kafka? Anyways...that's not the point. The thing is that - whether we like Kafka or not - we were not supposed to know about all his writings.

Now what if I told you that Kafka gave me some of his writings and made me promise to keep them a secret? Of course at that time he’d only be a potential Kafka and not that famous 'kafkaesque" writer, whos name has become an adjective. What would be your advice to me?

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