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The Office Series, Day Three: Kafka

How the writer's work directly inspired his art
By Joshua Cohen | 11:23 AM Dec 3, 2008

Kafka began his career with an Italian company, Assicurazioni Generali, with offices in Prague. That company, formally known as Imperial Regia Privilegiata Compagnia di Assicurazioni Generali Austro-Italiche (the name should give an indication of its operation), was closely associated with the port of Trieste, in Italy, the largest, busiest port of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
In 1908, ...