"The
dark corners, the mysterious
passages, the boarded-up
windows, the dirty
yards, the noisy
beer-shops and the shuttered
inns still live in us. We walk through the
broad streets of the newly-built
town. Yet our
steps and our
glances are unsure.
Innerly we still shiver as we did in the
old streets of
misery. Our
hearts still know nothing of the re-sanitation that has been carried out. The
sick old Jewish
town is much more
real to us than the
new hygienic town now surrounding us."
Franz Kafka in conversation with Gustav Janouch, from Emanuel Frynta,
Kafka & Prague, London: Batchworth, 1960, p60.
