Kafka Imagining

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October 18, 1921. Eternal Child. Life calls again.

April 11 1922. Eternal youth is impossible : even if there were no other obstacle, instrospection would make it impossible. (from Diaries 1914- 1923)

July 3 (today) was Franz Kafka’s birthday. (July 3, 1883, 7 am in Prague – a Cancer with moon in Gemini.)

See another photo of Kafka at 13 Bar mitzvah

Anthony Perkins in the Trial (1962) directed by Orson Wells (Villagevoice review,here)

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Architect Steven Holl has completed the interior of the Franz Kafka Society in Prague, Czech Republic.

  • The Most fortunate to Most Unfortunate of Men via Das Schloss
  • Zadie Smith reviews Kafka’s biography essays,
    The Tremendous World I Have Inside My Head: Franz Kafka by Louis Begley
  • The Man Who Disappeared: Kafka Imagining Amerika
  • “Kafka is in ecstasy, writes whole nights through. A novel, set in America.”-Max Brod

  • Who’s afraid of Franz Kafka
  • When Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opened in Prague in 1964, its title was changed to Who’s Afraid of Franz Kafka?

  • K goes to movies
  • Prague/Kafka (from Eggplant photo project)
  • Orson Wells narrates Before the Law