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Franz Kafka

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Marcel Proust

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Oskar Kokoschka

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian painter and writer

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

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George Orwell

George Orwell

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam

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Boris Leonidovich Pasternak

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

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André Malraux, 1967.

André Malraux

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Rudyard Kipling

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Claude Cahun

Claude Cahun

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