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Franz Kafka in conversation with Gustav Janouch, 1920-1924
"...Franz Kafka turned the pages of a book by Alfons Paquet, The Spirit of the Russian Revolution, which I had brought with me to his office.‘Would you like to read it?’ I asked.
‘No, thank you,’ said Kafka, and handed me the book across his desk. ‘At the moment I have no time. A pity. In Russia men are trying to construct an absolutely just world. It is a religious matter.’
‘But Bolshevism is opposed to
religion.’
‘That is because it is itself a religion. These interventions, revolts, the blockade – what are they? They are little rehearsals for the great and cruel religious wars, which will sweep across the world.’
...‘You don’t believe in a wider expansion of the Russian Revolution?’
Kafka was silent for a moment, then he said:
‘As a flood spreads wider and
wider, the water becomes shallower and dirtier. The Revolution evaporates, and
leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy. The chains of tormented
mankind are made out of red tape.’..."
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