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Of Kafka’s Mice and Men

In a letter posted from Zürau to his friend Max Brod Kafka announces a retribution: ‘You write so little about yourself, I take revenge with mice’. Brod, who’s prone to psychologizing virtually everything Kafka writes him (a kind of pyschology aptly characterized by Calasso as ‘not very different from what would one day become the [...]