Franz Kafka's insomnia haunted him, but it also fueled his creativity
Surreal and saturated with themes of isolation and anxiety, Franz Kafka's work has a nightmare-like quality. It comes as little surprise that he suffered from insomnia, wrote mostly at night, and was obsessed with sleep and sleeplessness. In a study published in The Lancet Neurology, Italian doctor Antonio Perciaccante and his coauthor Alessia Coralli take a look at Kafka's life and work through the lens of the literary icon's sleep symptoms.
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