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478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)

The History of Literature

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The Sober Tone and the Invisible Erasure of the Narrator

Kafka was a touchstone for Kafka. He took Flaubert's not only his approach to style but also his approach to the writer's life very much. It may have even been part of the predicament of his life that he saw the devotion to perfecting his art as somehow incompatible with living a full life in a way that he saw in Flaubert.

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