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If he really wanted it destroyed, he'd have destroyed it. Kafka wanted the same, if his will wasn't violated, we wouldn't know Kafka's novels, just a few stori
by coldtea 3y ago
If he really wanted it destroyed, he'd have destroyed it.
Kafka wanted the same, if his will wasn't violated, we wouldn't know Kafka's novels, just a few stories here and there (who didn't make a spash anyway, so they'd vanish without works like the Trial and the Tower to drive interest to them). Though one could argue that how Kafka's wish was treated was itself Kafkaesque. We didn't liberate the works from his death wishes, we stomped on Kafka once more.
The real moral of the story is: delete your browser history.
- ragazzina 3y ago>If he really wanted it destroyed, he'd have destroyed it. Maybe he wanted to keep working on it and if it had reached a standard that he found acceptable, he would have published it, and if he had died before then, he didn't want it published"