It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed to the postbox day after day... ate with editors... intrigued for favorable notices... read the Writer's Digest... consorted with critics... autographed napkins... made himself available to librarians... spoke on the radio...


praragraph deleted from Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel, in Tracy Daugherty's Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme (2009), p. 335.

Donald Barthelme Quotes

It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed ...

It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed ...

It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed ...

It is not true that Kafka wanted Brod to burn his manuscripts after his death. Rather it is the case that Kafka was on fire to be published... rushed ...