Max Brod Critical Essay | Critical Review by Times Literary Supplement

Critical Review by Times Literary Supplement

SOURCE: “Writing from Prague,” in Times Literary Supplement, No. 3387, January 26, 1967, p. 71.

In the following review, the critic finds Der Prager Kreis to be a notable accompaniment to Brod's autobiography.

Der Prager Kreis, a volume of reminiscences and observations, is a welcome complement to Herr Max Brod's autobiography, Streitbares Leben, published in 1960. At the age of eighty-two Max Brod has lost none of his zest, none of the generous devotion to the work of other writers which has made his name inseparable from that of Kafka. His retrospective account of the Prague Circle—he rightly asserts that there was no such thing as a Prague School, but only groups of writers held together by personal friendship or by common influences—errs only on the side of generosity. While it is certainly true that a number of Prague writers have been unjustly neglected, it is difficult for an outsider...
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