Via the Times:
A stash of explicit pornography to which Franz Kafka subscribed has emerged for the first time after being studiously ignored by scholars anxious to preserve the iconic writer’s saintly image…
… “These are not naughty postcards from the beach. They are undoubtedly porn, pure and simple. Some of it is quite dark, with animals committing fellatio and girl-on-girl action… It’s quite unpleasant.”
“Academics have pretended it did not exist,” Dr Hawes said. “The Kafka industry doesn’t want to know such things about its idol.”…
…Kafka’s interest in pornography, which left traces in such works as The Metamorphosis, matters if it makes us look at any of Kafka’s fiction in a new way, he said: “Kafka had a strongly visual imagination, and the importance of the visual arts for him hasn’t yet been fully explored.”
Okay fine, but lets see the images already! Instead, I settled for a pic of two cockroaches boning.
Image: Amish Shah.