Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens
Max Brod was a Bohemian-born Israeli author, composer, and
journalist.
Although he was a prolific writer in his own right, he is best
remembered as the friend and biographer of writer Franz Kafka. Kafka
named Brod as his literary executor, instructing Brod to burn his
unpublished work upon his death.
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Robert Walser was a German-speaking Swiss writer.
Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka.
"Indeed", writes Susan Sontag, "at the time [of Walser's writing], it
was more likely to be Kafka [who was understood] through the prism of
Walser."
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Franz Kafka was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic.
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In the second half of the 1960s I traveled repeatedly from England to Belgium, partly for study purposes, partly for other reasons which were never entirely clear to me, staying sometimes for just one or two days, sometimes for several weeks.
Granted: I am an inmate of a mental hospital; my keeper is watching me, he never lets me out of his sight; there's a peephole in the door, and my keeper's eye is the shade of brown that can never see through a blue-eyed type like me.
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