A Fratricide A Fratricide "A Fratricide" (German: Ein Brudermord) is a short story by Franz Kafka written between December 1916 and January 1917. It is one of Kafka's most realistically descriptive and graphically violent stories, and tells the story of a murderer, Schmar, and his victim, Wese. Although no clear motive for the murder is given anywhere in the story, it can be ascertained that the crime is a matter of jealous passion. Apart from the title, there is no obvious indication that the two characters are brothers, and the title may be an allusion to the biblical story of Cain and
The Killing of the Unicorn a lot of money" for the book "and it was much reviled upon its appearance. We got one good review from Charles Champlin ... we were in the bestseller list for a couple of weeks; a few weeks, but there was a tremendous sort of groundswell of animosity towards me that was fueled by various sections of the community. And the book was very anti-Playboy and just a lot of enemies came up and decided to kill me." The Killing of the Unicorn Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten 1960-1980 is a book by Peter Bogdanovich detailing the relationship between