Kafka in Love by Jacqueline Raoul-Duval

Author:Jacqueline Raoul-Duval
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781590515426
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2012-11-12T22:00:00+00:00

14 Ottla, over the opposition of her parents, married Josef David, a Christian Czech. While Max Brod saw the marriage as a loss for Judaism, Kafka supported his sister: “You are doing something extraordinary, and to do something extraordinary correctly is extraordinarily difficult. But if you manage never to forget the responsibility that such a difficult act entails, you will do more than if you had married ten Jews.”

“I’m the most Western Jewish of them all. In other words, to exaggerate, not one second of calm has been granted me, nothing has been granted me, everything must be earned, not only the present and future, but the past as well—something that is perhaps given every human being—this too must be earned, and this probably entails the hardest work of all. If the Earth turns to the right—I’m not sure it does—then I would have to turn to the left to make up for the past. But as it is I don’t have the least bit of strength for these obligations; I can’t carry the world on my shoulders—I can barely carry my winter coat.”

—LETTER TO MILENA

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