In her obituary for her lover, Franz Kafka, Milena Jesenská sketched a modern Gnostic, a writer whose vision was of the kenoma, the cosmic emptiness into which we have been thrown: He was a hermit, a man of insight who was frightened by life. . . . He saw the world as being full of invisible demons which assail and destroy defenseless man. . . . All his works describe the terror of mysterious misconceptions and guiltless guilt in human beings. Milena brilliant, fearless, and loving may have subtly distorted Kafka’s beautifully evasive slidings between normative Jewish and Jewish Gnostic stances. Max Brod, responding to Kafka’s now-famous remark “We are nihilistic thoughts that came into God’s head” explained to his friend the Gnostic notion that the Demiurge had made this world both sinful and evil. “No,” Kafka replied, “I believe we are not such a radical relapse of God’s, only one of His bad moods. [download]
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