I’ve seen people talk about actors and artists that had a terrible time.
My own would be Anne Rice. She wrote Interview with the Vampire after her young daughter died of Leukemia. Then her husband suddenly died of a brain hemorrhage. I suspect her Christian, anti-fanfic phase was a result of mental illness and manipulation from the publishers, although I don’t think she ever apologized.
Bruno Schulz is one of my favourite short story authors and I think he deserves to be remembered with as much reverence as Kafka (who he translated into Polish for the first time).
He was Jewish and was shot dead in the street by an SS officer in 1942.
Such a pointless death too the Gestapo officer shot him because he was personally mad at the other Gestapo officer who liked Schulz artwork and had him paint a mural, because the other officer killed one of his “personal Jews” who was a dentist. Just so stupid.
Kafka was kinda lucky that he died before all that shit went down if you think about it. He would have been forced to see all his sisters be gassed to death. Plus, the Gestapo stole the works of is last year in Berlin from his girlfriend.
Such disgusting humans.
They weren’t human in my book.
Just like the jews in theirs
what the living fuck?
I’ve never heard of him, but I’ll check him out. I really love Kafka, so that connection is enough for me!
This reminds me of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)too—another early admirer of Kafka. Benjamin, a Jewish Marxist, was in a city that was about to be taken over by the Nazis. They were so close that he and many other inhabitants killed themselves. I think it was the next day that the Allies attacked the oncoming Nazis and saved the city from their takeover.
That’s a very apt comparison. I read a fair whack of Benjamin at University and ended up getting a tattoo of Le Flâneur by Paul Gavarni after reading some of his stuff as a kind of trbute to him and Baudelaire.
I’d love to see a picture of it
TIL that about benjamin. damn!
Schulz is far more dour if you can believe that.