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Jul.28.2008
The following is an excerpt from a theatre review, where Kafka previously was referred to as "The Prince of Darkness".
The play concerns the plight of the 'understudy', whose life is certainly difficult enough. The play-within-the-play for which the actors await their turns as 'understudy' is a...
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Jul.21.2008
A couple of items had led me to believe I was mistaken in a aspect of Kafka's life. And it proved that I was. I had him take two visits to Lake Como, when he really went to Lake Garda. I guess Alpine lakes all look the same.
However, on this roller coaster of discovery, I came across three items...
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Jul.13.2008
End of a Kafkaesque nightmare: writer's papers finally come to light
Documents hoarded for 40 years in Tel Aviv flat by executor's secretary
Kate Connolly in BerlinThe Guardian
Academics hope the papers will throw new light on Franz Kafka. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Scholars of the 20th-...
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Jul.10.2008
So I'm past the 666 stage. Live long and prosper.
Apparently we became ousted from the Garden of Eden and into Satan's arms because we unwisely slithered to eat of the Tree of Knowledge. How we would manage to exist without knowledge I do not know. God seems full of such conundrums.
Kafka was full...
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Jul.07.2008
Last update - 12:57 06/07/2008
T.A. flat may hold key to holes in Kafka bio
By Ofer Aderet
Ceremonies were held around the world Thursday to commemorate what would have been the 125th birthday of Franz Kafka, the Prague-born writer who gained renown only after his...
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Jul.03.2008
AUTHORS REJOICE IN ADULATION
All Kafka News - Prague
Today marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Franz Kafka. Authors worldwide can not be dissuaded from their belief that this was the Second Coming awaited since the days of Cervantes and Shakespeare. In hushed and reverential tones, odes of...
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Jun.30.2008
It ain't King Lear.
Perhaps it is not as momentous as a Shakespearean play (by Shakespeare), but I was as startled as I'm sure Kafka would be, to find some of his work transformed into the graphic novel genre.
Alerted by those fine folks at Google, a news story appeared from the Tulsa World of...
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Jun.29.2008
I won't restrain myself when given the chance to introduce Kafka into a Shakespeare discussion.
From Zadie Smith's review in the online New York Review Of Books concerning "The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka: A Biographical Essay" by Louis Begley comes this...
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Jun.20.2008
Should I blame my father? Kafka blamed his.
My father, who long ago re-located to the world Kafka also inhabits, put this annoying impediment into my mind. Whenever he read an article (regardless of how he praised it), if he found an inaccuracy, he would question if he could therefore believe any...
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Jun.19.2008
Never say you know it all - hubris loves it.
However, I do know a lot about Kafka and new information always takes me by surprise. Within the last few days I found out that Kafka has been credited with devising the first 'safety helmet' or hard hat. He was also awarded a medal for this feat. Now, I...
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