Franz Kafka, the writer born in 1883 and died in 1924. His published works include The Trial, Metamorphosis and The Castle. Many consider him the greatest writer of the twentieth century.
These are the bald facts. But Franz Kafka, the man, or better still the noun-phrase, conjures up far much more than that. He led a different life than we all knew, especially about sex. Let's take a closer look to this great writer's life!
We have nothing to say to Kafka's literary prosperity, but a lot of information has emerged in the last period about his way of life being different than we thought.
Unlike what we know so far, Kafka was financially better off and had a more pleasant life. He was a person who knew a lot of people and met many new ones.
On one occasion, he quickly threw himself out of the brothel and vomited.
But why is that?
For example, he found sex to be 'dirty' both physically and morally, thus avoided sex. This, in turn, led to conflicting ideas and approaches toward women.
In Bohemia, books about sexuality, at that time were not about the misconduct or morality of sexuality, but about their health risks.
These feelings and thoughts perhaps stopped Kafka, who was engaged four times during his short life, from getting married.
In the time Kafka lived, porn was not as widespread and common as it is today, and in a way, those who owned pornography in their homes were faced with a great reaction from society.
All of this was what the great writer enjoyed and was guilty of. Kafka's sexuality is often described as 'self-estrangement' in his diaries.
The theory that Kafka's 'neurotic' friend Brod was a healthy person also loses a little bit of credibility.