Hi,

I´ve already talked about it in other places, with a little different point of view, once it was not in places about Czech Republic, but about Literature in general. Anyway, I would like to know what is the general position of Czech people to Franz Kafka.

Is he considered a national pride or not? 

Here, in Brazil, and probably there too, the books have some catalogue information, so, my Kafka´s books, althought the three I have are by the same edition and by the same translator, have different informations for catalogue,  two of them are considered as "German literature" and the other as "Czech literature in German".

I think 'German literature' is not the best option. I like this "Czech literature in German", but I don´t have enough knowledge to tell if the most of the cultural influences on Kafka were German and/or Austrian or Czech. There is also his Jewish heritage.

In the end, it becomes a "patriotic" matter. Germans and Austrians will claim Kafka for them, because it´s "their" language. Czechs claims him because he was born in Prague. And Jewish have their merits as well, by the way, he is buried in a Jewish cemitary.

Perhaps, it is a nonending and nonsolution matter like some of Kafka´s own books. 

Good bye.: