Kafka Was the Rage
| Author | Anatole Broyard |
|---|---|
| Subject | Memoir |
| Publisher | Crown |
Publication date | 1993 |
| Pages | 160 |
| ISBN | 9780307757487 |
Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir is a 1993 book by American literary critic and New York Times writer Anatole Broyard. A memoir, Broyard discusses his time in Greenwich Village after serving in World War II, during which he ran a used bookstore and attended The New School. The book was published incomplete, as Broyard died of prostate cancer in 1990 before he could finish it. Broyard discusses his relationship with Sheri Donatti (an alias for Sheri Martinelli) and meeting famous writers and intellectuals, including Gregory Bateson, Erich Fromm, and Anaïs Nin.
In 2019, The New York Times named the book as one of the best memoirs of the last 50 years.