This book of Kafka's "office writings"--the memos and other documents that he wrote for his "day job" as a lawyer for a workmen's compensation agency--shows that Kafka was an excellent lawyer and bureaucrat and (as we knew) a very fine writer. On the larger questions whether and to what extent his office writings are continuous with his fiction, and his experiences as an insurance lawyer a source for that fiction, the editors' claims are not entirely convincing. It seems on the contrary that Kafka was able to separate his two very different vocations, as lawyer and as writer of fantastic fictions.
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