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elfgrandfather:

Sorry to be posting it like this but it’s way too long for an ask and I couldn’t find the submission button on your blog because I’m a dumb. Either way:

I like how you tell me this, as if Kafka’s lusting for other men is cool but not worthy of being transcribed in every detail and SENT TO ME
elfgrandfather how can you play a sister like this

Okay so sadly a lot of Kafka’s diaries got hella censored by his friend Max Bröd in what I guess was an attempt to make him seem less awkward/weird/socially unacceptable but they released the unabridged edition in German in 1987… and no English-speaking person’s decided to translate them. All my hate.

But anyway while we all wait for me to marry a German and make him translate them, I’ve managed to dig up some extracts that are pretty choice:

In January 1911 during a train ride, he writes about sitting across a young salesman and noting the bulge his ‘well rounded penis’ made in his trousers, and later that year during Health Spa Trip  #4958: Why Am I Still Ill Surely Not Because I Don’t Eat he writes about chilling out with other patients and being struck by ‘handsome young Swedes with long legs, so well-formed and taut one could gladly lick them.’ :0 whoa there.

He also sent a letter to Bröd in 1917 saying ‘ If I go on to say that in a recent dream of mine I gave Werfel a kiss, I stumble right into the midst of Bluher’s book.’ Werfel being Franz Werfel, a close friend, and ‘Bluher’s book’ I’m not entirely certain because I can’t find tons of info on Bluher, but he seems like a pretty interesting fellow considering he wrote texts with names like ‘”Niels Lyhne” and the issue of bisexuality’ and ‘The three basic forms of sexual inversion. A sexological study’ in 1912 and 1913 respectively, along with a bunch of discussions of homosexual attraction among German youth groups. Dude got balls. And in 1917 he published a book called ‘The Role of the Erotic in Male Society’ which I haven’t read yet but considering his track record I can wager a guess about its contents, and since his material was controversial and groundbreaking and apparently of interest to Kafka I’m sure he would have bought and read the book when it first came out. Kafka continues in his letter: ‘The book upset me; I had to lay it aside for two days. However it shares the quality of other psychoanalytic works that in the first moment its thesis seems remarkably satisfying, but very soon after one feels the same old hunger’ but that the hunger can be explained ‘psychoanalytically: instant Repression.’

He also wrote about having huge crushes on his classmates at school and biographers etc handwaved it by saying ‘PFFFFT IT’S JUST NORMAL SCHOOLBOY STUFF’ but ok considering all the other evidence this seems like a pretty stupid conclusion to come to?? Plus if you read his stories there’s some definite sexual tension between male characters in a number of them.
Either way it actually gives another reason why he told Max Bröd and Milena to burn his stuff, which they obviously took to mean ‘remove the more lurid bits and then publish it plz’

As soon as I learn German I’m translating everything. EVERYTHING. It’s gonna be great.

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  1. marxmaterialized reblogged this from elfgrandfather and added:
    As soon as I learn German I’m translating everything. EVERYTHING. It’s gonna be great.
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  3. bitchitoldyouigottaste said: oh my god leg licking swedes and checking out penises on trains. kafka and i woulda been buds, this is AMAZING
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