I was reading 'Kafka: A Biography' by Ronald Hayman. Here is a list of some of the topics listed as subcategories under 'Kafka, Franz' in the index. Can this be beaten? Please list index subjects!
ability to enjoy a woman's presence in her absence
amoeba-like self-division
compulsion to inflict inflict pain on himself
compulsion to think badly of himself
cultivates comic detachment from his own words
desire for company disappears when gratified
detachment and objectivity in writing insurance reports
dissatisfaction with his body
distils abjection into allegory
fantasy of being summoned to live with the King
fear of being over-cautious
feeling of being dirty
feelings of being plural
feelings of near disintegration
has systematically destroyed himself
identifies with insects and animals
inability to remember pleasant experiences
incestuous cravings
inclination to welcome disease
indecision
indifference to practical usefulness
lack of inner freedom
looking out of windows
masochistically greedy window-shopping
moments of feeling brilliant and bullet-proof
on the uselessness of intimate letter-writing
pleasure in identification with the dying
questions whether he is entitled to stay alive
refusal of the food that life offers
reluctance to change clothes
sees humanity as a nihilistic hope in God's head
self-dislike
self-torture
sense of being a prisoner in his parents' flat
tormented by noises
uncertainty of right to occupy space
writing and the illusion of human intercourse
writing as deliberately protracted farewell to his father
― Eyeball Kicks, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)
From Ellmann's Joyce biog:
Eyesight
at Clongowes, 28
J refuses to wear glasses, 64
J gets strong prescription, 192
acute attack in Trieste, 268, 308
in Zurich, 412-13, 454, 498
in Paris, 512, 517, 535-8
first operation (iridectomy) 417
five-week iritis diablement, 517, 537-8
operations for, 536, 537, 540, 566, 568-74
Dr. Morax consulted, 535
and Dr. Berman, 536, 657-8, 659, 663-4, 669
London consultation, 537
and three London ophthalmologists, 537
Dr. Borsch advises sphincterectomy, 536
dental extractions, 536, 543, 569-70
leeches and dionine treatment, 538
dental extractions advised, 543
fifth operation, 566
sixth operation (capsulotomy), 568-9
J undeterred by trouble with, 569-74, 613, 664, 669n
seventh operation, 570-71
eighth and ninth operations, 572-4
left eye quite blind, 574
new collapse, 603
J breaks glasses, 592
pilocarpin treatment, 607
J's style and method unconnected with, 613n, 716n
sight worsens, 613, 621-3
J's promotion of Sullivan and, 621-2
Lucia's strabismus, 622
Vogt consulted, 622, 627-8, 657, 658, 659, 663
sight improves, 623-5
J skips examinations, 657
tenth operation (capsulotomy), 623
eleventh operation, cataract on right eye, 623
right eye deteriorates, 657-8
Vogt's diagnoses, 623, 657-8, 663-4, 669, 707
Hemingway's anecdote about, 695n
J only half-blind, 623, 707, 716n.
― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 8 February 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)