Kafka's Travels

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, ''[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.'' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka''s ongoing preoccupation with popular tr...