Would you have publicized the fact Kafka had a porn collection?

British Kafka scholar, James Hawes, has gone to the press about a never before seen collection of pornographic materials that belonged to Franz Kafka.

The materials, whom Hawes describes as "unpleasant" and "quite dark" were hidden among other  Kafka documents and were until now ignored by the few Kafka scholars who knew about them and chose to keep the porn stash story secret.

Hawes, who's promoting a new book called Excavating Kafka, claims the discovery helps shed a new, more human light on the German writer. "These are not naughty postcards from the beach. They are undoubtedly porn, pure and simple. Some of it is quite dark. It's quite unpleasant" he told the Times.

Kafka's porn was published by German publisher Franz Blei - the same person who published Kafka's early works. It was called "The Amethyst/Opals".