franzkafka Novelist whose works were banned in his native land from 1968-'89 His novella "The Metamorphosis" was published in 1915 "Amerika" author (see letters 3, 6, 7, 9 and 10) He wrote "I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy" He said "You are free and that is why you are lost" "The Metamorphosis" author