Kafka, the end of the Goncourt

I read the novels of Kafka I hadn't read already, Le Chateau and L'Amerique. They are about the horror of the modern state. I also read his stories, including Metamorphose. I found that my usual criteria of only completed works in the form the author wanted couldn't apply here -- most of the works were published posthumously. The journals await me, but first I have also concluded in a rush the more cheerful if cheesier Goncourt diaries. At the close, I am amazed at the sharpest of the comments about people Edmond is supposed to like. I am a little embarrassed at my enjoyment of it all.

I also read Lecturing, by Sally Brown and Phil Race. I am now over 250 pages into the Robinson biography of Charles Chaplin.