Franz Kafka
October 14, 2009
- Kafka comes to the small panels in this rendition of The Metamorphosis by R. Sikoryak . I gotta say, it's well done. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112510733
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September 29, 2009
- It has everything: death; the law; the courts; history; Jews; Germans; lies; some truth; whats been did and whats been hid.The TrialFight for Kafka's Papers Winds through Israeli CourtsBy Christoph Schult Before his death in 1924, Franz Kafka left his papers to Max Brod who rushed them out of Czechoslovakia ahead of the advancing Nazis. Now, the daughter of Brod's late secretary wants to sell ...
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June 3, 2009
- When I was a boy I was put on a train and shipped off to my first summer camp for eight weeks. This was not such an unusual occurrence back then; in fact one had no choice: it was either two months or nothing. Considering my sisters had willingly and happily done this since they were very young was considered a kind of precedent. It killed two birds: it kept me occupied and out of the house for ...
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April 1, 2009
- This is a hoot. An added bonus is that Kafka was the first person to ever write about airplanes for a newspaper. He and his friend, Max Brod, attended an air show in Brescia, Italy on 11 September 1909. Kafka wrote an article about it for the Prague daily, Bohemia . A second bonus (for me) is that this is from The ...
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October 1, 2008
- From Monday's Chicago Tribune. Your Kafka pop quiz: Pencils ready?Julia Keller | CULTURAL CRITIC September 29, 2008 "Kafka on the Shore" has almost nothing to do with famed author Franz Kafka (1883-1924). That does not mean, however, that we all couldn't benefit from brushing up on the man whose name has become synonymous with soul-destroying frustration. Test your Kafka knowledge ...
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August 18, 2008
- It seems to be a law of writers' blogs that you must have an essay on that perennial question: Where Do You Get Your Ideas? So I thought that by way of introduction I'd just get this one out of the way because, frankly, it's so easy. Franz Kafka offered this advice to writers (I guess to writers - I can't imagine who else he would have been talking to): You do not need to leave your room. ...
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