Manuscript of Kafka’s 'First Sorrow' to appear at German auction

The manuscript of Franz Kafka’s short story 'Erstes Leid', or First Sorrow, accompanied by a three-page letter to his publisher will appear at auction in Hamburg on November 23.

Kafka was a complex character and notoriously self-critical, burning the vast majority of his works.…

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