478 The Diaries of Franz Kafka (with Ross Benjamin)
The History of Literature
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The Psychoanalysis of Kafka
Kafka left behind was were 12 notebooks and some bundles of loose papers. He didn't keep them chronologically he would grab different notebooks at different times and continue writing in an earlier notebook years later. So Brode's chronology is probably roughly correct but he had to make decisions about where to put material that wasn't clearly dated. Then he excised literary texts that had been published elsewhere the entire draft of the judgment, the short story of the Stoker which is also the first chapter of the novel as America. The missing person etc is written in two parts actually out of chronological order because he wrote the second part in a notebook that he had begun earlier than the one in which he
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