"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity." [<i… - Franz Kafka

"A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity."

[Letter to Max Brod, July 5, 1922]

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a Bohemian-Jewish novelist, and one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century.

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Alternative Names: František Kafka • Kafka

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