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Letter from Franz Kafka complaining of writer’s block up for auction
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 day agoA letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for...
Wes Anderson meets Franz Kafka in a new streaming series
The Forward· 4 days agoIt is perhaps best, in the case of Franz Kafka, history’s most famous insurance clerk, to review his...
The Very Online Afterlife of Franz Kafka
New York Times· 4 days agoThe video’s creator is 25-year-old Margarita Mouka — @aquariuscat444 on TikTok, where she frequently posts about Kafka, integrating his work, his likeness and his life story into her online ...
A century after his death Franz Kafka is still in the zeitgeist
The Economist· 5 days agoFranz Kafka was not a social person: he spent much of his time alone, trying, and often failing, to...
Hidden in Kafka’s Castle
Acton Commentary· 1 day agoShould we blame Max Brod? Brod was almost certainly the nearest thing Franz Kafka ever had to a friend, and in time Kafka appointed him his literary...
Kafka 100: Stanley Kubrick’s films are littered with references to the writer’s work
The Conversation· 5 days agoIt was during that research, which was published as Stanley Kubrick: New York Jewish Intellectual in 2018, that I began to notice how the work of Franz Kafka</ ...
Stop Trying to Understand Kafka
The Atlantic· 10 hours agoThe rabbis of the Talmud taught in parables, fanciful tales meant to illustrate moral principles. To what may a parable be compared? With just one modest anecdote, you may fathom the Torah!
Kafkaesque nightmare or Orwellian hell: which dystopia are we currently living in?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoEIn the upcoming Radio 4 series Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop recounts being told off by a reader of...
Dylan’s “Wind,” Kafka’s “Trial,” and Memorial Day 2024
Princeton Town Topics· 7 days agoAllen Ginsberg called “Idiot Wind” one of Bob Dylan’s “great great prophetic national songs,” with “one rhyme that took in the whole nation.” Dylan wrote it 50 years ago this summer, first recorded ...
'Russia now is like 1984': Inside a Russian dystopian library
BBC News· 2 days agoIf the billboards in Ivanovo are to be believed, Russia’s really going places. In this town, a...