One should either be a work of art, or wear one, " proclaimed Oscar Wilde at the end of the nineteenth century, "I am made of literature, I am nothing else, and cannot be anything else, " Franz Kafka declared a decade later. Between these two claims lies the largely unexplored region in whichthe European decadent movement turned into the modernist avant-garde. In this original historical study, Anderson explores Kafka's early dandyism, his int...
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