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97 - Franza Kafka's Diaries (Guest: Ross Benjamin)

Books of Some Substance

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The Body and Kafka's Perception of His Body

"With such a body nothing can be achieved, I will have to get used to its perpetual failure," Kafka wrote in 1911. "My body is too long for its weakness, it has not the least fat to generate a blessed warmth", he writes of his weak heart. It's basically a really beautiful prose poem, or a piece of prose, piece of short prose, it was written in this diary entry November of 1911.

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