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Sep.25.2012
Kafka did not make many pronouncements about the visual arts, but I suspect (even though we are dealing with Kafka) that abstracts would not be his favourite. So I'm not sure what he would make of this Gerhard Richter painting, Prag 1883, coming up for auction. Richter created the...
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Sep.22.2012
This article is a bit of heavy-going (though I realize many would say the same about Kafka himself). I, personally, think that Kafka's Jewishness and his religion did not influence his writing to any great degree. Quite frankly, Kafka was beyond all that stuff. Still, in my novel about Kafka...
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Sep.04.2012
Now is the Time (September - ahhh!) and this is the place -Prague! - for a wonderful vacation. And what (I ask) could make you any happier than the follow in the footsteps of Franz Kafka?It will even make you more happy than Kafka himself, who was actually no great fan of Prague ("The little mother...
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Sep.02.2012
“The world is going to Hell.” We’ve been hearing that for so long, it may seem surprising that we haven’t got there yet, but plenty of people have been there and some would say they still are.
For many folks trying to exist behind the Iron Curtain, everyday life was a kind of Hell. That...
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Sep.02.2012
This is not really a favourable review of the movie (which I have not seen). However, one of the main criticisms sounds related to Kafka's own desires and directions. He stipulated that, on the cover of the book, The Metamorphosis, the insect which Gregor Samsa has become not be depicted.kafka...
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Aug.30.2012
Some might say that there could be no other type of video game representing Kafka than one described as "twisted". Why, just remain on the original script and the rest follows. I dunno how well 'gamers' will take to Kafka, but I'm reasonably sure Kafka would try his hand at it. True, he was no fan...
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Aug.23.2012
Getting off the train in Prague in 1988 was stepping into a Kafka story – or a film noir of dark streets, decaying buildings, aggressive shadows, and a constant suspicion that hidden eyes watched. The old train station near the top of Wenceslas Square spilled us onto a flight of grimy steps...
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Aug.10.2012
Kafka commented about Prague that: "The little mother has claws." He was no fan of the city and spent years of his life desiring to get away. Which he finally did, but only for the last year he lived. That can probably be classed as not a successful conclusion to a quest. However, Kafka knew Prague...
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Aug.08.2012
Can be found here: http://www.thenervousbreakdown.com/jpsmith/2012/08/review-of-the-investigation-by-philippe-claudel/
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Jul.26.2012
There are some pithy observations here about Kafka's pithy observations as regards the ways of men and the world. Kafka knew the nightmare world of government and corporate bureaucracies because he spent most of his working life within a combination of both. He was a star lawyer for a quasi...
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