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>During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk in Prague, addressed to his friend Max Brod. “Dearest Max,” it began. “My last request: Everything I leave behind me . . . in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others’), sketches and so on, to be burned unread.”
what was his problem?

>> No.22033045

>>22033034
He knew that he was a bugman.

>> No.22033064

>>22033034
He didn’t finish his work. He published what he DID finish. What was incomplete he wanted burned because it wasn’t in the state he wanted to show publicly, it was unpolished and in rough state. Virgil wanted the Aeneid burned for the same reason.

>> No.22033068

>>22033034
Aubrey Beardsley did the same thing. It was the spirit of repentance.

>> No.22033309

>>22033034
>he's never destroyed his work while suicidal
OP is pleb

>> No.22033384

>>22033034
>During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work.
Source?

>> No.22033401

>>22033384
reddit probably

>> No.22033480

>>22033034
I think we should take him seriously and not read or mention him ever again.

>> No.22034032

>>22033034
His novels are overlong boring drivel compared to his short stories, so as a self-critic he was a quite reasonable

>> No.22034066

That friend was a real jerk.

>> No.22034083

>>22033034
>>During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work.
good, nothing good about reading about the psychotic jews

>> No.22034616

My theory is that in his lifetime he suffered from not having having success or atleast the appropriate recognition for his work.
He knew he was good and many people actually acknowledged it too but since he didn't get the amount of recognition/success/wealth? He got pissed and knew that whatever comes after his death it doesn't matter so he rather destroyed them.
Thomas Bernhard also never achieved success in his lifetime but after he died he didn't have to have paid for his work so the gov acknowledged his work