Clarin.com: Franz Kafka, escritor checo sobre los momentos en los que todo parece perdido: "Cuando todo parezca haber terminado, surgirán nuevas fuerzas; eso significa que estás vivo"
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Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements of realism and the fantastique, and typically feature isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible bureaucratic powers. The term Kafkaesque has entered the lexico…
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These people are so self-possessed, so self-confident and good humoured. They rule the streets, and therefore think they rule the world. In fact, they are mistaken. Behind them already are the secretaries, officials, professional politicians, all the modern satraps for whom they are preparing the way to power.
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2026· 43 entries
dw.com: In the footsteps of Franz Kafka in Prague
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Published video “Chapter 8.25 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 8.4 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 7.44 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 7.40 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 9.20 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 9.23 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 8.29 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 2.10 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 8.27 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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Published video “Chapter 2.17 & Chapter 3.1 - The Trial - Audiobook”.
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: ‘When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day…
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Artnet: Cavallerizza (from Franz Kafka: Auf der Galerie) 1969
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OkDiario: La frase de Franz Kafka, escritor, sobre la gestión emocional: «Cuando todo parece terminado, surgen nuevas...
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expreso.ec: Franz Kafka. La metamorfosis: el horror de ser prescindible
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livemint.com: Franz Kafka's last novel ‘The Castle’ evokes the terrifying reality of our lives now
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Quotidiano Sportivo: Antropova, what a beautiful Metamorphosis! Kate dunks, receives, and reads Kafka: "It'll be tough against Poland."
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The Friday Times: Rebirth Of Gregor Samsa: Kafka, The Cockroach And India’s Gen Z Revolt
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“Was tied hand and foot like a criminal. Had they sat me down in a corner bound in real chains, placed policemen in front of me, and let me look on simply like that, it could not have been worse.”
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“These people are so self-possessed, so self-confident and good humoured. They rule the streets, and therefore think they rule the world. In fact, they are mistaken. Behind them already are the secretaries, officials, professional politicians, all the modern satraps for whom they are preparing the way to power.”
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“Dearest Max, my last request: Everything I leave behind me ... in the way of diaries, manuscripts, letters (my own and others”
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Slant Magazine: ‘Franz’ Review: Agnieszka Holland’s By-the-Book Biopic of Literary Genius Franz Kafka
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BroadwayWorld: Savage Wonder to Stage Kafka's THE TRIAL With Five Actors Playing 25 Roles
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El Destape: Franz Kafka, escritor: "Cualquiera que conserve la capacidad de ver la belleza jamás envejece"
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pausa.com.ar: La vida de Kafka en la pantalla del Cine América
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english.radio.cz: Beyond Kafka's letters: 130 years since the birth of journalist and resistance fighter Milena Jesenská
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Clarin.com: La película sobre Franz Kafka es disruptiva, anticonvencional, pero todo riesgo conlleva sus peligros
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EL PAÍS Uruguay: "Kafka" en Film & Arts: por qué la nueva miniserie sobre Franz Kafka no se parece a ninguna otra biografía
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Página|12: “Franz”, o Kafka visto a través de un caleidoscopio
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The Economic Times: Quote of the day by Franz Kafka: 'Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never...' - motivational quot
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The Economic Times: Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: "It is not necessary to accept everything as true..."- The original Kafkaesque moment, The Trial author’s chilling warning about truth and power
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Published video “Capítulo 32 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 07 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 17 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 11 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 33 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 38 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 04 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 14 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 30 - El Fogonero”.
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Published video “Capítulo 18 - El Fogonero”.
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jagranjosh.com: Author of the Day: Franz Kafka
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2025· 2 entries
The Daily Beast: Franz Kafka Gets a Fittingly Unconventional Biopic at TIFF
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Franz Kafka’s Hebrew writings are now on view in New York City
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2024· 15 entries
The Times of Israel: Franz Kafka’s papers metamorphose into National Library exhibit
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The Guardian: Alienation effect: why film-makers can’t get enough of Franz Kafka
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UCA News: Franz Kafka, an unusual writer
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gpb: Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, TV miniseries shows
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Northcountrypublicradio.org: Franz Kafka's life wasn't so kafkaesque after all, TV miniseries shows
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Smithsonian Magazine: An Ailing Franz Kafka Curses Writer’s Block in This Handwritten Letter to a Friend
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The Guardian: Franz Kafka’s Prague: a centenary tour of the writer’s home city
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The Guardian: Franz Kafka letter shows author’s anguished struggle with writer’s block
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The Guardian: Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell
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The Guardian: Metamorphoses by Karolina Watroba; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Diaries review – Franz Kafka as more than just a prophet of malaise
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The Guardian: Where to start with: Franz Kafka
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The Guardian: Author Franz Kafka’s life was far from kafkaesque, biopic shows
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The Guardian: Diaries by Franz Kafka review – caught in the act
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Deadline.com: Karlovy Vary Sets Franz Kafka Retrospective For 58th Edition; Fest Will Screen Digitally Restored Version Of 1978 Czech Title ‘Shadows Of A Hot Summer’
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The Guardian: Franz Kafka’s dour image hid a much lighter side, a new exhibition reveals
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2023· 1 entry
The first unexpurgated edition of Kafka's diaries was published in English, "more than three decades after this complete text appeared in German
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2022· 1 entry
Yale University Press published Franz Kafka: The Drawings
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2021· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “In the early 1920s, Franz Kafka consoled a little girl he met in the park by writing dozens of letters to her, posing as her missing doll.” Unproven.
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Snopes rated the claim “In the early 1920s, Franz Kafka consoled a little girl he met in the park by writing dozens of letters to her, posing as her missing doll.” Unproven.
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“Citation choisie pour le 11 septembre 2021.”
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2019· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 14 septembre 2019.”
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2016· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 12 décembre 2016.”
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2012· 2 entries
“Chesterton è così felice che si sarebbe quasi tentati di credere che abbia davvero trovato Dio. (citato in Alberto Friso, Chesterton, il formidabile, ne Il Messaggero di Sant'Antonio, Ottobre 2012, p. 68)”
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“Citation choisie pour le 26 juin 2012.”
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2010· 2 entries
Held that the papers must be released and a few were, including a previously unknown story, but the legal battle continued
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“È difficile dire la verità, perché ne esiste sì una sola, ma è viva e possiede pertanto un volto vivo e mutevole. (citato in Flavio Tranquillo, Mario Conte, I dieci passi. Piccolo breviario sulla legalità, add editore, Torino, 2010, p. 123)”
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2008· 2 entries
Between the sisters and the National Library of Israel, which claimed these works became the property of the nation of Israel when Brod emigrated to British Palestine in 1939
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“Il poeta è sempre più piccolo e più debole della media degli uomini. Per questo sente più intensamente, con più forza degli altri la pesantezza della sua presenza nel mondo. (citato in Corriere della sera, 1 aprile 2008)”
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2001· 1 entry
Is an annual literary award of the Franz Kafka Society and the City of Prague
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1999· 2 entries
Moved to the Jewish Museum in New York City, and finally established in Prague in Malá Strana (Lesser Town), along the Moldau, in 2005
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A committee of 99 authors, scholars, and literary critics ranked Der Process and Das Schloss the second and ninth most significant German-language novels of the 20th century
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1998· 1 entry
As the official international search for Kafka's last writings
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1997· 1 entry
“My 'fear' [...] is my substance, and probably the best part of me. (da una lettera a Milena; citato in Margarete Buber-Neumann, Milena, Arcade publishing, 1997, p. 60, anteprima su Google libri)”
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1988· 4 entries
“Da un certo punto in là non c'è più ritorno. È questo il punto da raggiungere. (5; 1988)”
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“As translated in Weimar Intellectuals and the Threat of Modernity (1988) by Dagmar Barnouw, p. 187”
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To the German Literary Archive Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar
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“La vera via passa su una corda, che non è tesa in alto, ma rasoterra. Sembra fatta più per far inciampare che per essere percorsa. (1; 1988)”
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1982· 1 entry
And Der Process (The Trial), published in 1990
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1972· 3 entries
“Non esistono fiabe non cruente. Tutte le fiabe provengono dalla profondità del sangue e dell'angoscia. (1972)”
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“Dire una cosa è troppo poco, le cose bisogna viverle. (1972)”
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“Il lavoro intellettuale strappa l'uomo alla comunità umana. Il lavoro materiale, invece, conduce l'uomo verso gli uomini. (1972)”
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1968· 1 entry
Left Kafka's unpublished papers, which are believed to number in the thousands, to his secretary Esther Hoffe
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1961· 2 entries
By Schocken Books, Parables and Paradoxes presented in a bilingual edition by Nahum N
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Malcolm Pasley acquired for the Oxford Bodleian Library most of Kafka's original handwritten works
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1953· 3 entries
“Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem lande - Página 44, Franz Kafka - S. Fischer; Lizenzausgabe von Schocken Books, New York, 1953 - 455 páginas”
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“Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem lande - Página 42, Franz Kafka - S. Fischer; Lizenzausgabe von Schocken Books, New York, 1953 - 455 páginas”
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“Hochzeitsvorbereitungen auf dem lande - Página 84, Franz Kafka - S. Fischer; Lizenzausgabe von Schocken Books, New York, 1953 - 455 páginas”
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1948· 1 entry
As The Penal Colony: Stories and Short Pieces, including additionally The First Long Train Journey, written by Kafka and Brod; Kafka's "A Novel about Youth", a review of Felix Sternheim's Die Geschichte des jungen Oswald
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1946· 2 entries
21 articles were published on Kafka's work
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Kafka's work was popular, with 21 articles on it written that year
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1944· 1 entry
Was a sequel to Benjamin's earlier piece in many respects
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1943· 1 entry
Four articles were published, with one that "criticized Kafka as a symbol of the social decadence which was responsible for the failure of the Weimar Republic"
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1942· 1 entry
But that is the last documentation of her; it is assumed she did not survive the war
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1941· 1 entry
Eleven reviews and articles were published, including "a doctor's dissertation at the University of Zürich" by Herbert Tauber, entitled "Franz Kafka, eine Deutung seiner Werke"
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1940· 1 entry
The Southern Review published a religious interpretation of The Trial
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1939· 1 entry
Kafka's work was reviewed in many countries, including in the periodicals The Southern Review, The Kenyon Review and Expressionism in German Life
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1935· 3 entries
As a complete set by Schocken; however, distribution and broad awareness of these works was stymied by the totalitarian atmosphere of the Nazi regime
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As the Nazi Race Laws were being promulgated and prepared for their introduction at that year's Nuremberg Rally, the word ghetto bore the same connotation it carried since the early 17th century: 'a part of the city wher
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As a complete set by Schocken Books; however, distribution and broad awareness of these works was stymied by the Nazi regime
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1933· 1 entry
But scholars continue to search for them
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1932· 1 entry
Only one article was published, possibly because of the rise of the National Socialist party, as there was a strong antisemitic bias at a time
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1931· 3 entries
“Beim bau der chinesischen mauer - página 225, Franz Kafka - G. Kiepenheuer, 1931 - 266 páginas”
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“Alle Zitate nach: Franz Kafka, Betrachtungen über Sünde, Leid, Hoffnung und den wahren Weg. In: Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer, Hrsg. Max Brod, Hans Joachim Schoeps, Verlag Gustav Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1931, Volltext bei Wikisource”
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Brod edited a collection of prose and unpublished stories as The Great Wall of China, including the titular short story "The Great Wall of China"
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1930· 3 entries
Edwin and Willa Muir translated the first German edition of Das Schloss
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Only four articles were written, and the following year saw eight articles
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Only four articles were published, and the following year saw eight articles
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1929· 1 entry
The Hermann family business experienced financial difficulties and eventually went bankrupt
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1925· 2 entries
“Published as Der Prozess (1925); full text online”
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“Alle Zitate nach: Franz Kafka, Der Prozess, Roman, Verlag Die Schmiede, Berlin 1925, Volltext bei Wikisource”
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1924· 7 entries
Died 1924-06-03.
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“Pan chce widzieć sens, a dopuszcza się największego bezsensu. To doprawdy może przyprawić o rozpacz.”
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Describes a victimized protagonist who experiences a decline in the appreciation of his strange craft of starving himself for extended periods
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“der sich die Fähigkeit erhält, das Schöne zu erkennen, wird nie alt werden.”
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“An einem gewissen Punkt angelangt, gibt es kein Zurück mehr. Das ist der Punkt, der erreicht werden muß”
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And Brod's "Infantilismus Kleist und Kafka" in 1927
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“Nun kann ich euch in Frieden betrachten; ich esse euch nicht mehr.”
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1923· 1 entry
Kafka, hoping to escape the influence of his family to concentrate on his writing, moved briefly to Berlin (September 1923-March 1924) and lived with Diamant.
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1922· 2 entries
“Das Zögern vor der Geburt. Gibt es eine Seelenwanderung, dann bin ich noch nicht auf der untersten Stufe. Mein Leben ist das Zögern vor der Geburt." - Tagebücher, 24. Januar 1922. In: Tagebücher 1910-1923, Hrsg. Max Brod, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3436023515, projekt-gutenberg.org”
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“Opis: wpis z 10 kwietnia 1922.”
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1921· 2 entries
In an essay entitled "Der Dichter Franz Kafka"
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“First appeared in Brod, Max. "Der Dichter Franz Kafka." Die neue Rundschau 11 (1921): 1210-1216.”
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1920· 1 entry
Kafka began an intense relationship with Milena Jesenská, a Czech journalist and writer who was non-Jewish and who was married, but whose marriage, when she met Kafka, was a "sham"
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1919· 2 entries
Dedicated to Kafka's father
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As part of the story collection Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) and became part of the novel Der Process
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1918· 2 entries
The Worker's Accident Insurance Institute put Kafka on a pension due to his illness, for which there was no cure at the time, and he spent most of the rest of his life in sanatoriums
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And published in Leipzig during October 1919
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1917· 4 entries
“The bliss of murder! The relief, the soaring ecstasy from the shedding of another’s blood! Wese, old nightbird, friend, alehouse crony, you are oozing away into the dark earth below the street. Why aren’t you simply a bladder of blood so that I could stamp on you and make you vanish into nothingness? Not all we want comes true, not all the dreams that blossomed have borne fruit, your solid remains lie here, already indifferent to every kick. What’s the good of the dumb question you are asking?”
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“The Silence of the Sirens" (October 1917)”
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Kafka's story "Jackals and Arabs" is an illustration of the tendency that Buber describes in this letter: Arabs are called Arabs, elsewhere Chinese may be directly referred to as people from China, but in this case refer
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“Il male conosce il bene, ma il bene non conosce il male. (Zürau, Ungheria, 21 novembre 1917, 1972)”
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1916· 2 entries
“Das, was Verantwortungsgefühl ist und als solches sehr ehrenwert wäre, ist im letzten Grunde Beamtengeist, Knabenhaftigkeit, vom Vater her gebrochener Wille." - Tagebücher, 27. August 1916. In: Tagebücher 1910-1923, Hrsg. Max Brod, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3436023515, projekt-gutenberg.org”
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“With F I knew intimacy only in letters, in a human way not until the last two days. The clarity is still lacking, doubts remain. But it is beautiful, the gaze of her calm eyes, the opening of womanly depth.”
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1914· 2 entries
Kafka began the novel Der Process (The Trial), the story of a man arrested and prosecuted by a remote, inaccessible authority, with the nature of his crime revealed neither to him nor to the reader
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“Opis: wpis z 2 sierpnia 1914.”
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1912· 4 entries
“Opis: wpis z 8 marca 1912.”
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“Opis: wpis z 3 stycznia 1912.”
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And dedicated "to Miss Felice Bauer", and in subsequent editions "for F
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Kafka wrote Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis, or The Transformation), published in 1915 in Leipzig
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1911· 1 entry
“Opis: wpis z września 1911.”
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1910· 1 entry
“Opis: wpis z 19 lipca 1910.”
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1909· 1 entry
Which became part of "Beschreibung eines Kampfes" ("Description of a Struggle")
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1908· 3 entries
And two sections in the spring of 1909, all in Munich
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In the first issue of the literary journal Hyperion under the title Betrachtung (Contemplation)
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In the first issue of the bi-monthly Hyperion
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1906· 1 entry
Studied at German University in Prague, Doctor of Laws (1901–1906).
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1905· 1 entry
Showed it to Brod, who advised him to continue writing and convinced him to submit it to Hyperion
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1904· 1 entry
“Letter to Oskar Pollak (27 January 1904)”
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1903· 2 entries
“Ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns. (da una lettera a Oskar Pollak, novembre 1903; citato in Nicholas Murray, Kafka, Hachette digital, anteprima su Google libri)”
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“Letter to Oskar Pollak (8 November 1903); cited from Briefe, 1902-1924 (1958) edited by [Max Brod]], p. 27 ; translation from Franz Kafka, Representative Man (1991) by Frederick R. Karl, p. 98”
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1902· 1 entry
“Praga non ci lascia più andare. Questa piccola madre ha gli artigli. Non c'è altro da fare che cedere. Per potersene liberare bisognerebbe darle fuoco da due lati, il Vyšehrad e il Hradčany. (da Lettera a Oskar Pollak, 1902)”
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1893· 1 entry
Kafka was admitted to the rigorous classics-oriented state gymnasium, Altstädter Deutsches Gymnasium, an academic secondary school at Old Town Square, located within Kinský Palace
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1883· 1 entry
Born 1883-07-03.
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