The Last Words of Franz Kafka (on this day 3 June, 1925) #shorts #lastwords #quotes

“Kill me, or else you are a murderer!” The last words of the Czech novelist Franz Kafka were made to his doctor, begging him to administer an overdose of morphine to cease his suffering. He died of starvation; the condition of his laryngeal tuberculosis made eating too painful, and feeding him became impossible. On his deathbed, Kafka made a last request: “Everything I leave behind me. . . in the way of notebooks, manuscripts, letters, and sketches, is to be burned unread and to the last page.” He felt his writings were an insufficient way to properly communicate “the enormous world I have inside my head.” “Only because I haven’t burnt them yet? . . .  What’s the point of preserving such miscarried works, even if the miscarriage was artistic?” In the final scene of The Trial, Joseph K. is tempted “to seize the knife himself . . .and plunge it into his own body.” Like his protagonist, Kafka could not bring himself to carry out his own execution. The closing of his throat and the lack of nourishment ravished his senses, forcing him to make a final plea:
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[gaghhuh]

I still feel guilty for reading the trial. Its kinda like reading someone's diary without their permission. But its too awesome of a book to not read it

[E.M.Favour]

Only hope that where ever he is he knows that’s he work wasn’t as worthless as he taught it was and that an entire generation can relate to him

[srikanthmuskula]

Oh! That's horrible of a seemingly right person..!