May 2012
8 posts
“But I waver on the heights; it is not death, alas, but the eternal torments of...”
– from Kafka’s diary
“…for the first time that day, he began to feel alright with his body; the little...”
– from The Metamorphosis
“[Kafka] managed to represent so fully the everyday passage from hope to grief...”
– from the essay Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Kafka, by Albert Camus
“‘How I need you,’ Frieda says to K., ‘How forsaken I feel...”
– from The Castle
“February 4. Lying for a long time, sleeplessness, becoming conscious of the...”
– from The Blue Octavo Notebooks
April 2012
20 posts
“As someone said to me — I can’t remember now who it was — it is really...”
– Franz Kafka
“What will we do in these spring days that are now hurrying toward us? This...”
– Franz Kafka, Absently Gazing Out
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“Kafka’s hero is the man who believes in absolute freedom, but cannot have...”
– The World of Franz Kafka by Erich Heller
“Sometimes I have thought she understood me without knowing it. For instance, the...”
– Franz, on Felice Bauer
“When Kafka read aloud himself…humor became particularly clear. Thus, for...”
– from Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960)
A fine thing, black coffee!
“What?” said Karl. “You are a salesman all day and you study all night?”
“Yes,” said the student, “there’s nothing else to be done…”
“But when do you sleep?” asked Karl, looking at the student in wonder.
“Oh, sleep!” said the student. “I’ll get some sleep when I’m finished with my studies. I...
“‘If I had only spoken sooner, instead of looking out of the window,’...”
– from Amerika
“‘Oh Karl, my Karl!’ she cried; it was as if her eyes were devouring...”
– from Amerika
“…if Kafka wants to express the absurd, he will make use of consistency....”
– from ‘Hope and the Absurd in the Work of Franz Kafka’ by Albert Camus
“Unfortunately one can never quite forget about them, especially during the night”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
“Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means...”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
“Nervous states of the worst sort control me without pause. Everything that is...”
– Franz Kafka, Diaries (via kafkaesque-world)
March 2012
12 posts
“‘I won’t need my strength much longer, I’ll use all I have...”
– from The Trial
“‘Do you want anything else from me?’ asked K. ‘You were so...”
– from The Trial
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February 2012
14 posts
3 tags
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”
Submitted by aboulie.
“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...
