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Kafka wrote late in life that "one develops in one's own way only after death, only once one is alone." How, then, did Kafka develop, who, upon his death in 1924, had published but a fraction of his writings and left a will that seemed to ask for the destruction of the rest? We will study the emergence of an exemplary author and iconic figure by considering the literary scene he entered in 1908, his romantic and textual engagements in Prague and Berlin, the posthumous struggles over the publication, interpretation, and editing of his novels, short prose, diaries, correspondences, and the love his solitary stance provokes to this day. |