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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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shtetl
Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

both enamored of and horrified by an Eastern shtetl life he never knew

of Kafka

—p.68 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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the personal failures of writers project/kill-your-heroes

Kafka's mind was like that; it went wondrous fast--still, when it came to women, it went no faster than the times allowed. Those who find the personal failures of writers personally offensive will turn from Kafka here, as readers turn from Philip Larkin for similar reasons [...]

—p.64 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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F. Kafka, Everyman by Zadie Smith

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encomium

The prospect of living with her inspires pages of encomia on solitude

about Kafka's attitude towards his betrothed

—p.63 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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hagiography

The truly hagiographic text is Gustav Janouch's Conversations with Kafka.

—p.61 F. Kafka, Everyman (58) by Zadie Smith
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