Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, TV miniseries shows
Briefly

We all think we hear of the bureau, or the office, that it's a dark world and it's apocalyptic (for Kafka). But in the real world, it was a paradise," Director David Schalko told NPR's Michel Martin...
In rejecting the usual tropes of equivocating Kafka's angst-ridden works with the writer's life, Schalko's biopic offers a lush, more humanly complex picture. ...
The first theme is the author's relationship with his close friend Max Brod who ultimately defied Kafka's wish to have all his manuscripts burned and instead became his biographer. ...
In episode four, Kafka wins successive court cases and contracts for the company... He is held in high esteem by his superiors at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute...
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