Franz Kafka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible within himself, though both that indestructible something and his own trust in it may remain permanently concealed from him.[72]
Though Kafka never married, he held marriage and children in high esteem. He had several girlfriends,[73] but some academics have speculated over his sexuality; others have suggested he may have suffered from an eating disorder. In a 1988 paper published by the Psychiatric Clinic of the University of Munich presented "evidence for the hypothesis that the poet Franz Kafka had suffered from an atypical anorexia nervosa".[74] In his 1995 book Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient, Sander Gilman investigated "why a Jew might have been considered 'hypochondriac' or 'homosexual' and how Kafka incorporates aspects of these ways of understanding the Jewish male into his own self-image and writing".[75] Kafka considered committing suicide at least once, in late 1912.[76]
…I thought I had been exposed to it several times, at the shelter where I was staying and when helping my landlord move a 1960’s refrigerator from my apartment.
