Prosessen by Franz Kafka5/15/2023 ![]() ![]() ‘When you read his diaries, there is nothing but fear’ … Max Brod, photographed circa 1940. I think Brod was just able to repress all of this in the couple of hours he spent with his lovers, and Kafka was not able to because his mind never slept.” “It is an outdated idea that Kafka was neurotic and Brod was healthy. ![]() It almost overwhelmed all his other interests,” Stach says. He’d often talk about his ideal woman, the idea of women being the saviour of men – but when you read his diaries, there is nothing but fear: fear of unwanted pregnancies, syphilis, venereal diseases, on every page. In these hitherto unpublished diaries, Stach discovered a new side to the man often credited as being more rambunctious and sexually active than his friend Kafka: Brod himself was constantly and deeply worried about the consequences of sex. While researching for his third volume, titled Kafka: The Early Years (published in October in an English translation by Shelley Frisch), Stach obtained copies of Brod’s diaries between 19, when Kafka was in his mid-20s. ![]()
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