February 2012
14 posts
Franz Kafka Rock Opera - Home Movies →
“I don’t know what’s wrong with me I think I’m turning into a bug I see double what I see I think I’m turning into a bug I ain’t got no self-esteem I think I’m turning into a bug Bet you fifty dollars I’m a man, I’m a scholar and I’m turning into a bug”
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“Max [Brod’s] objection to Dostoyevsky, that he allows too many mentally ill persons to enter. Completely wrong. They aren’t ill. Their illness is merely a way to characterize them, and moreover a very delicate and fruitful one. One need only stubbornly keep repeating of a person that he is simple-minded and idiotic, and he will, if he has the Dostoyevskian core inside him, be...
Some Remarks on Kafka's Funniness →
Do yourself a favor and click on the title link, which will lead you to a beautiful essay written by David Foster Wallace. It’s a must read for anyone and everyone. Rest in peace, David.
November 2011
3 posts
Jean-Michel Folon's illustrations for Kafka's... →
“Kafka’s suggestion as to how his story might be illustrated, if it had to be illustrated—not, pace Nabokov, with an entomologically or coleopterically correct beetle… but with a picture of a man lying in bed.” -Michael Hofmann
“December 25, 26, 27. F. Leaves. Weeping. Everything difficult, wrong, and yet...”
– F. Kafka, from the Third Blue Octavo Notebook
October 2011
4 posts
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“The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the...”
– F. Kafka
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
“I couldn’t read it for its perversity. The human mind isn’t complicated enough.”
– Albert Einstein, after returning a Kafka novel loaned to him by Thomas Mann
July 2011
35 posts
“On his way up he disturbed several children who were playing on the steps and...”
– from The Trial
Scene from The Trial
This is, without a doubt, my favorite part of The Trial. As Josef K. is being led to his death, he sees a figure that he believes to be Fraülein Bürstner. The following is one of his final reflections before he meets his untimely death:
“At that moment, coming up a small flight of stairs to the square from a narrow lane below, Fraülein Bürstner appeared before them. He couldn’t be...
“Someone must have slandered Josef K., for one morning, without having done...”
– the opening sentence of The Trial, by F.K.
“I have no right to complain that I am alone and have nobody that I can trust. I...”
– from The Burrow, by F.K.
“The whole art of Kafka consists in forcing the reader to re-read.”
– Albert Camus, from ‘Hope and the Absurd in the Works of Franz Kafka’
Kafka's Reflection #26
“There is a goal, but no way; but what we call a way is hesitation.” –from Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
Kafka's Reflection #62
“The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.” -from Reflections on Sin, Suffering, Hope, and the True Way
Kafka Short Stories →
For anyone who is interested in reading Kafka’s shorter stories, here is a website that has a selection of them available to read online. So what are you waiting for? Go read & spread the Kafka love!
Note: The title is the link. The stories are translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, and are available in English only.
“Parents who expect gratitude from their children (there are even some who insist...”
– from The Diaries of Franz Kafka, November 12, 1914
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember,...”
– Franz Kafka to Milena Jesenska, 1921
