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404 Kafka and Literary Oblivion (with Robin Hemley)

The History of Literature

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Is There a Part of Kaka That Didn't Want Immortality?

Do you think kaka thought his reputation could rise and fall on what had already been published? Or do you think he really just didn't want it, that he didn't want immortality, or was indifferent to it? I think there were a lot of contradictions in him. When max broad brought him to a publisher, a curt wolf, i believewho published a lot of wonderful writers, jack. Then kofka reluctantly gave the manuscript to the publisher and said, you know, you would do me a great favor by not publishing these,. which iss strange, you. Now, i don't know anyone, any one i know, who would say that to a publisher. Maybe we

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