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Early 20th-century German thought and African-American literature were rattling around Mark Christian Thompson's head when he reread Franz Kafka's Amerika. Also known as The Man Who Disappeared, or ...

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During the late afternoon of June 11, 1924, in a modest ceremony at Prague’s New Jewish Cemetery, one of the 20th century’s most influential writers was laid to rest. Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis ...

During his lifetime, Franz Kafka burned an estimated 90 percent of his work. After his death at age 41, in 1924, a letter was discovered in his desk in Prague, addressed to his friend Max Brod.