re: #183 HappyWarrior

All Quiet? No that was written in 29 I want to say. Its author was an a veteran of the war. It’s the war novel that has stood with me the most over the years since I always find myself forgetting that our nation was at war with the characters in the novel but it doesn’t matter. You see the characters as fellow men and nationality way beyond which I guess is why the Nazis hated it so much. Kafka was I think writing from about the mid 10’s through the mid 20’s or so. I actually saw his home when I was in Prague. A huge outsider, Jewish and a German speaker in a Czech speaking country.

No, I know about All Quiet. I meant when you were reading what you mentioned?