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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