What are the motifs in Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir by Anatole Broyard?

Greenwich Village culture is a recurring idea. In the late 1940s, the Greenwich Village section of New York City was the ultimate in intellectual elitism. The community was populated with artists, poets, authors and intellectuals. The poets W. H. Auden and Anais Lin were residents of the Village. Anais Lin lived with literary giant Henry Miller at one point in her life. The famed Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife were frequenters to the area. The literary enthusiasts of the Village had crushes on D. H. Lawrence, Celine, Dahlberg and Empson to name just a few. And, of course, the works by Kafka were the rage. Many of the fans of modern and post-modern authors not only loved the writing, they would, at least temporarily in their words and actions, become the author or become his characters.