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Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaeseque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial
The Conversation· 12 hours agoSpecifically, it’s the famous opening line of The Trial, which continues to resonate powerfully 100 years after the
Franz Kafka Romance ‘The Glory of Life’ Sells Wide
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 1 day agoInternational buyers are swooning over The Glory of Life, a very un-Kafkaesque love story about Franz Kafka and his last romance. < ...
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< ...
Kafka 100: a parade of men with no appetite from a writer consumed by thoughts of nourishment
The Conversation· 1 day agoThere is a rather potent image of failure which recurs in the short stories and novels of Franz Kafka, the Czech writer ...
German-Czech Future Fund supports Kafka anniversary projects
dpa international via Yahoo News· 1 day agoTo mark the 100th anniversary of Franz Kafka's death, the German-Czech Future Fund is supporting...
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...
Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoLike Franz Kafka himself, this is an exhibition with two very different faces. One is a...
Kafka centenary: Stanley Kubrick’s films are littered with references to the writer’s work
The Conversation· 4 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 100: struggles of disabled characters in systems that don’t support them feel just as relevant...
The Conversation· 4 days agoThroughout his work, Franz Kafka depicts bodies disabled by the exhausting effects of the workplace. In Amerika (1911 ...