Monday, July 22, 2013

Miss Kafka


MISS KAFKA 


“Long before these confessions, 
Friedlander notes, Kafka was 
writing in his diary about posing 
for an artist in the nude at age 19 
as a model for St. Sebastian. The 
picture of Kafka the serial womanizer 
stripping off his clothes in a Prague 
studio in 1912 and allowing another 
man to tie him to a post and paste 
fake arrows on his chest is slightly 
jarring even in the 21st century 
(actual pictures would be yet more 
jarring still – do they exist? If they 
ever surface, will we claim we were 
unprepared?).”—Steve Donoghue, 
Book Review: Franz Kafka, The Poet 
of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedlander



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