I know I’ve already written about this here, but the Kafka trial continues to fascinate me. I am adding Kafka’s biography to the list of books I’d like to read soon, and I am going to re-read Bruno Schulz this weekend, the first translator of his literature to another language. This quote from the NYT piece encapsulates what draws me infinitely to Kafka, that fact that his readers are incessant, vocal, loving, obsessive.
“Kafka studies now proliferate at a rate inversely proportional to that of Kafka’s own production: according to a recent estimate, a new book on his work has been published every 10 days for the past 14 years. Brod, in his 84 years on this planet, published 83 books, most of them now out of print.”
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