Anyone who cannot cope with life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.
— Franz Kafka Modern

The Metamorphosis, surrealist fiction

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Diaries of Franz Kafka

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1910

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/61988/61988-h/61988-h.htm

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