Fiction. Rosalind Palermo Stevenson's KAFKA AT RUDOLF STEINER'S is a work of short fiction that explores two factual incidents in Franz Kafka's life. The first is Kafka's visit to the mystical philosopher, Rudolf Steiner, at the time that Steiner was in Prague delivering a series of lectures on the subject of "An Occult Physiology." The second is Kafka's platonic and highly idealized love affair with a young Italian girl during his ten-day stay at...