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‘Within a week, I agreed that Kafka’s spirit occupies resident writers’ desks’

What is it like to write in Franz Kafka’s home? As Prague ushers in the novelist’s 140th birth anniversary this week, an Indian author-journalist in the last leg of a literary residency shares his experience

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A man walks past a bronze statue of Franz Kafka sitting on the shoulders of an imaginary person, located in the Old Town Square next to the house where Kafka was born. Pic/Getty Images

A man walks past a bronze statue of Franz Kafka sitting on the shoulders of an imaginary person, located in the Old Town Square next to the house where Kafka was born. Pic/Getty Images

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Prague never lets you go…this dear little mother has sharp claws.  
Franz Kafka 

The novelist’s tempestuous relationship with Czech Republic capital where he was born, worked and buried after his death, remains an intriguing legacy. Fame didn’t matter to Kafka. When alive, he is believed to have destroyed a majority of his works. On his deathbed, he asked friend Max Brod to burn his novels once he was gone. Luckily, good sense prevailed and Brod published the works for the world to enjoy. Prague’s famous son would probably have shied away from popularity that it earned as a literary city, helped in great measure by his footprints that dot its corners and contours.

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