May 2012
10 posts
“One must dare to dive and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again —...”
– Franz Kafka
“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
