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Há 2 dias · Sal Robinson, the Morgan’s curator of the exhibit (who I apologize to right now for any suggestions of filched boxes and non-arrivals), is keen to think about Kafka’s life and afterlife; those he cared about – including letters and postcards to his favorite sister, Ottla, and letters to his first translator and lover, Milena Jesenska; and those who continue to care about his work ...
Há 3 dias · Franz Kafka is buried in the New Jewish Cemetery in the Prague suburb of Žižkov, but he died, on June 3rd, 1924, some three hundred kilometres to the east (and south) in the Hoffmann clinic at Kierling, near Klosterneuburg on the northern outskirts of Vienna. He was just a month short of his forty-first birthday.
Há 6 dias · It preserves a Kafka wracked by pain, barely able to eat, near to death. Little wonder that the look in those eyes fits so well with a world in which, suddenly, you can wake up as an insect, or ...
Há 2 dias · Another letter to Milena contained the revelation that the sexual urge, which seems to have been notably well developed in this otherwise retiring misanthrope, had its parallel to the spiritual. “The imperative has in it something of the eternal Jew, being senselessly drawn, wandering senselessly through a senselessly obscene world,” Kafka wrote.
Há 3 dias · His three sisters, Ello, Valli and Ottla, were murdered in Auschwitz. And Milena Jesenska died a political prisoner in Ravensbruck, a Nazi concentration camp. ‘Metamorphoses: In Search of Franz Kafka’ by Karolina Watroba, Profile Books, €20.99; ‘Completely Kafka’ by Nicolas Mahler, Pushkin Press, €13.99
Há 4 dias · Letters to the editor, June 1: ‘It should not be the responsibility of civil servants to get Ottawa’s economy going’. Contributed to The Globe and Mail. Published 13 hours ago. Pedestrians...
Há 2 dias · Yet in this passage, Canetti also makes something else clear. The letters to Felice are singularly useful, “in Kafka’s case, there is even more to it”. What is apparent in his letters to Felice is apparent in his fiction, his deep obsession with power, his attempt to “withdraw from power in whatever form it might appear”.
