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And last but not least, do not miss the help page if you are only looking for a hint in order to get that Kafka paper written! New in this issue. , a short essay by Gustavo Artiles This autumn, the Barbican Centre is hosting Peter Sellars� production of Kurtag�s Kafka Fragments on 11 November. Fragments taken from Franz Kafka�s letters and diaries have been set for violin and soprano by Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag, and are performed by soprano Dawn Upshaw and violinist Geoff Nuttall against a backdrop photographic images by David Michalek. The result is an electric and poignant performance of intense musical and visual collaboration. You can find more information about the event here. about Mark Harman's translation of Der Verschollene (Schocken 2008) and an exhibit at MOMA� An essay about Ein Hungerk�nstler by Joan M. Wolk: �Franz Kafka's Ein Hungerk�nstler: Metaphor of Conflict� An essay in Italian by Giorgio Fontana: �Odradek e il mondo delle fiabe� (in pdf-format) A new translation into English of Der Verschollene (a.k.a. America ). Thanks to Jeff Nowak for the wonderful effort! An English translation of �Josephine the Songstress, or The Mouse Folk� by Phillip Lundberg, from his recently published volume �Essential Kafka�; The International Trial Bibliography is initiated. Give your contribution to its completing! An essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-B�naz�raf: �Au miroir du r�ve. R�cits et fragments de Franz Kafka� (in pdf-format) ; An essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-B�naz�raf: �Franz Kafka: le dessin des "Acrobates" - L'aporie de la cr�ation� (in pdf-format); Another essay by Jacqueline Sudaka-B�naz�raf: �De la main qui dessine � la main qui �crit: la caricature v�hicule du burlesque dans quelques r�cits de Franz Kafka� (in pdf-format); A press release about the Franz Kafka Museum, a new cultural destination in . Read here a press release!; An essay by Matteo Colombi (University of Bologna, Italy) about the Trial : �La giustizia con le ali ai piedi. Analisi di congiura e processo in Der Prozess di Franz Kafka� (in Italian) ; An essay by Rita Peris: �The Unknowable: Meditations on the Law�; A short article by Michael Segedy about : �Paradigm Shift in Kafka's In the Penal Colony � ; is now freely avalaible on YouTube; A new translation into Italian of �In the Penal Colony� (�Nella colonia penale�); An essay in Swedish by Hans-Evert R�nerius about Franz Kafka and the face of God in the Jewish tradition; and a lot more in our huge archive! Call for papers. We constantly look for high-quality and copyright-free essays or translations of Kafka's works, especially in/into English. If you have translations or essays of your own, please contact us for submission! Kafka Trivia 16. Which was the family name of Kafka's mother before she got married to Hermann Kafka? Give here your answer! You win nothing, but you will be cited in the next update (if you do not answer anonymously). Visit the Hall of Fame! New books in evidence. Recently published Kafka books are presented here if a copy is sent to the webmaster for evaluation. Ask for details! The book consists of thought provoking interpretations of 24 Kafka short stories, based around entirely new and modern translations. Franz Kafka's writings have long been analysed and debated in the academic world, in search of a definitive meaning, through a plethora of interpretations. This, along with the complex nature of the works themselves, have made Kafka's literature mostly the realm of the academic Intelligentsia and consequently somewhat intellectually intimidating and inaccessible to the general public. Michael Major breaks through this invisible daunting barrier and offers the common Man access to Kafka, presenting fresh insights into a selection of short stories, inviting the readers to explore their own interpretations, based upon their own personal social experience and cultural background, free from the burden of any prescribed academic school of thought. Michael Major's original book stems from his own particular experience. For most of his life he had been unaware of Franz Kafka's literature, much less its literary significance or the high regard it commands. His introduction to Kafka came purely by chance, when a friend outlined one of Kafka's more notable works, ''''. and from that moment Michael was drawn into the intrigue of his style. Kafka's mysterious and somewhat confusing prose forced him to contemplate the story and its relevance not only to the characters within, but also to Kafka's life and his own life. By conceptualising, designing, self-publishing his book, Michael Major sets an example as to how a person can create a worthy cultural piece of work, from inception to completion, all by himself; and he offers hope to a wide range of readers, of any age and background, that high culture is not only the domain of society's cultural elite; it could rather be explored and enjoyed by everyone. �There has been no more original, no more serious critic and reader in our time� George Steiner. ��One of the most celebrated intellectuals of the twentieth century� Guardian. Walter Benjamin � philosopher, essayist, literary and cultural theorist � was one of the most original writers and thinkers of the twentieth century. This selection brings together Benjamin�s major works, including �One-way Street�, a series of aphoristic observations prompted by urban life in 1920s Europe; �Unpacking My Library�, a delightful meditation on book-collecting; the confessional �Hashish in Marseille�; and �The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction�, his seminal essay on how technology changes the way we appreciate art. Also including writings on subjects ranging from Proust to Kafka, violence to surrealism, this is the essential volume on one of the most prescient critical voices of the modern age. �On the Critique of Violence�, �The Task of the Translator�, �One-way Street�, �Hashish in Marseille�, �Picturing Proust�, �Surrealism�, �Unpacking my Library�, �Brief History of Photography�, �Franz Kafka� and �The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction�. Bestiario. En general los temas de Bestiario es criticar a la sociedad en general, a nosotros como hombres. Kafka toca temas como la critica a pensar diferente, la mala relación que existe entre sociedades diferentes, también toca temas muy personales como el odio que le hacía ser un abogado, como una persona puede ser dos cosas al mismo tiempo. También tiene temas como el estereotipo que crea la sociedad, como sería una vida diferente a la que llevamos en esta sociedad, como es la mente del hombre de poderosa, también encotramos temas en los que habla de la soledad, castigo, las desiciones que la gene puede tomar, critica la religión judia y se critica a él mismo y su aspecto. * Presentar una reflexión sobre las críticas que se presentan en el libro. 1. En "El topo Gigante", Kafka critica el sentido común, y lo difícil que puede ser que le crean a una persona con una idea que sea irreal 2. "Chacales y árabes" es un cuento en el que el tema principal es la critica de la mala relación que hay entre los árabes y el pueblo judío. 3. "El nuevo abogado" Kafka se esta criticándose a él mismo y de cómo era el en ese despacho de abogados. Las cosas que le molestaban, y de lo común que se le hacía ser un simple abogado por eso creo que prefirió ser escritor. 4. "Un Cruzamiento" el tema de este cuento es que como una persona puede ser dos cosas al mismo tiempo. El fuerte o el cobarde, el que tiene todo, o el que no tiene nada, como una persona puede cambiar tanto según como va cambiando su vida. 5. "Informe para una academia" el tema de este cuento que Kafka puso es de como una persona puede ser juzgado por lo que es y no por lo que en verdad se puede convertir. Como los estereotipos son muy marcados en verdad, pero al final demuestra en este texto como dando una oportunidad (educación) puedes ser lo que quieras. 6. "Preocupaciones de un jefe de familia" El tema de este cuento es ver la diferencia de una persona con una vida distinta a la de nuestra sociedad. 7. "El silencio de las sirenas" Critica de la mente humana. Y de lo poderosa que puede ser para jugar con nosotros. 8. "El buitre" Aquí Kafka critica la crueldad, la soledad y el castigo, también un poco el contribuir a tu propio daño. 9. "Fabulilla" Aquí Kafka critica en general las decisiones. Como una persona puede llevarse solo a un punto en el que ya no puedas salvarte y solo te hayas llevado a la perdición 10. "Un artista del hambre" Kafka se critica a el mismo. A como se veía con su enfermedad. Flaco débil y como el veía a todos los demás fuertes, etc. 11. "Investigaciones de un perro" En este relato Kafka critica a su propia religión. Critica un poco el todo, critica todo lo que ya esta dicho y hecho y pregunta por que de todo. Bestiario. Once relatos de animales, de Franz Kafka. En una carta de 1917, Franz Kafka (Praga, 1883 – Klosterneuburg, Àustria—, 1924) va suggerir a Martin Buber, que anava a publicar dues narracions seues, “Chacales y árabes” i “Informe para una Academia”, protagonitzada per un ximpanzé, que les agrupés amb el títol Dos historias de animales . Aquesta edició preparada per Jordi Llovet, seguint la proposta kafkiana de reunir-los en funció d’aquell denominador, recull aquests dos textos i nou més: “El topo gigante”, “El nuevo abogado”, “Un cruzamiento”, “Preocupaciones de un jefe de familia”, “El silencio de las sirenas”, “El buitre”, “Fabulilla”, “Un artista del hambre” i “Investigaciones de un perro. En aquesta antologia apareixen un talp, una manada de xacals, el cavall d’Alexandre el Gran transformat en advocat de la Magistratura, un rar encreuament de gat i corder, un ximpanzé, un animal-objecte semblant a un fus, unes sirenes, un voltor, un gat i un ratolí, i tot un poble constituït per diferents classes de gossos. En aquests relats, els animals resulten sempre intercanviables amb la pròpia condició humana, de manera que, com l’autor va advertir, s’han de llegir més com a literatura realista que com paràboles. Franz Kafka Bestiario. Once relatos de animales . Anagrama, Barcelona, 1990. Selección, prólogo y notas de Jordi Llovet 22 cm. 149 pp. Col. Panorama de narrativas; 190 ISBN: 8433931903 Col. Compactos Anagrama; 61 19 cm. 149 pp. ISBN: 9788433920652. Franz Kafka. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Franz Kafka , (born July 3, 1883, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now in ]—died June 3, 1924, Kierling, near Vienna, Austria), German-language writer of visionary fiction whose works—especially the novel Der Prozess (1925; The Trial ) and the story Die Verwandlung (1915; )—express the anxieties and alienation felt by many in 20th-century Europe and North America. What kind of relationship did Franz Kafka have with his father? His father, a materialistic man of business and a tyrant in his household, had a significant influence on Franz Kafka’s life and work. Kafka felt oppressed by him for most of his life. He appears in many of Kafka’s works, often as an overwhelming despotic power, as in The Trial . What was Franz Kafka’s life like? Franz Kafka moved in German Jewish intellectual circles throughout his life. He received a doctorate in law in 1906 from the University of Prague. Afterward he worked for insurance companies, which was time-consuming and left him only late night hours for writing. He was often ill, and sickness ultimately forced him to retire in 1922. What did Franz Kafka write? Franz Kafka’s work is characterized by anxiety and alienation, and his characters often face absurd situations. He is famous for his novels The Trial , in which a man is charged with a crime that is never named, and The Metamorphosis , in which the protagonist wakes to find himself transformed into an insect. Franz Kafka, the son of Julie Löwy and Hermann Kafka, a merchant, was born into a prosperous middle-class Jewish family. After two brothers died in infancy, he became the eldest child and remained, for the rest of his life, conscious of his role as elder brother; Ottla, the youngest of his three sisters, became the family member closest to him. Kafka strongly identified with his maternal ancestors because of their spirituality, intellectual distinction, piety, rabbinical learning, melancholy disposition, and delicate physical and mental constitution. He was not, however, particularly close to his mother. Subservient to her overwhelming ill-tempered husband and his exacting business, she shared with her spouse a lack of comprehension of their son’s unprofitable and, they feared, unhealthy dedication to the literary “recording of [his]…dreamlike inner life.” Kafka and his father. The figure of Kafka’s father overshadowed his work as well as his existence. The figure is, in fact, one of his most impressive creations. In his imagination this coarse, practical, and domineering shopkeeper and patriarch who worshipped nothing but material success and social advancement belonged to a race of giants and was an awesome, admirable, but repulsive tyrant. In Kafka’s most important attempt at autobiography, Brief an den Vater (written 1919; Letter to Father ), a letter that never reached the addressee, Kafka attributed his failure to live, to cut loose from parental ties and establish himself in marriage and fatherhood, as well as his escape into literature, to the prohibitive father figure, which instilled in him the sense of his own impotence. He felt his will had been broken by his father. The conflict with the father is reflected directly in Kafka’s story Das Urteil (1913; ). It is projected on a grander scale in Kafka’s novels, which portray in lucid, deceptively simple prose a man’s desperate struggle with an overwhelming power, one that may persecute its victim (as in The Trial ) or one that may be sought after and begged in vain for approval (as in Das Schloss [1926; ]). Yet the roots of Kafka’s anxiety and despair go deeper than his relationship with his father and family, with whom he chose to live in close and cramped proximity for the major part of his adult life. The source of Kafka’s despair lies in a sense of ultimate isolation from true communion with all human beings—the friends he cherished, the women he loved, the job he detested, the society he lived in—and with God, or, as he put it, with true indestructible Being. The son of an assimilated Jew who held only perfunctorily to the religious practices and social formalities of the Jewish community, Kafka was German in both language and culture. He was a timid, guilt-ridden, and obedient child who did well in elementary school and in the Altstädter Staatsgymnasium, an exacting high school for the academic elite. He was respected and liked by his teachers. Inwardly, however, he rebelled against the authoritarian institution and the dehumanized humanistic curriculum, with its emphasis on rote learning and classical languages. Kafka’s opposition to established society became apparent when, as an adolescent, he declared himself a socialist as well as an atheist. Throughout his adult life he expressed qualified sympathies for the socialists, he attended meetings of Czech anarchists (before World War I), and in his later years he showed marked interest and sympathy for a socialized Zionism. Even then he was essentially passive and politically unengaged. As a Jew, Kafka was isolated from the German community in Prague, but, as a modern intellectual, he was also alienated from his own Jewish heritage. He was sympathetic to Czech political and cultural aspirations, but his identification with German culture kept even these sympathies subdued. Thus, social isolation and rootlessness contributed to Kafka’s lifelong personal unhappiness. Kafka’s double life. Kafka did, however, become friendly with some German Jewish intellectuals and literati in Prague, and in 1902 he met . This minor literary artist became the most intimate and solicitous of Kafka’s friends, and eventually, as Kafka’s literary executor, he emerged as the promoter, saviour, and interpreter of Kafka’s writings and as his most influential biographer. The two men became acquainted while Kafka was studying law at the University of Prague. He received his doctorate in 1906, and in 1907 he took up regular employment with an insurance company. The long hours and exacting requirements of the Assicurazioni Generali, however, did not permit Kafka to devote himself to writing. In 1908 he found in Prague a job in the seminationalized Workers’ Accident Insurance Institute for the Kingdom of Bohemia. There he remained until 1917, when tuberculosis forced him to take intermittent sick leaves and, finally, to retire (with a pension) in 1922, about two years before he died. In his job he was considered tireless and ambitious; he soon became the right hand of his boss, and he was esteemed and liked by all who worked with him. In fact, generally speaking, Kafka was a charming, intelligent, and humorous individual, but he found his routine office job and the exhausting double life into which it forced him (for his nights were frequently consumed in writing) to be excruciating torture, and his deeper personal relationships were neurotically disturbed. The conflicting inclinations of his complex and ambivalent personality found expression in his sexual relationships. Inhibition painfully disturbed his relations with Felice Bauer, to whom he was twice engaged before their final rupture in 1917. Later his love for Milena Jesenská Pollak was also thwarted. His health was poor and office work exhausted him. In 1917 he was diagnosed as having tuberculosis, and from then onward he spent frequent periods in sanatoriums. In 1923 Kafka went to Berlin to devote himself to writing. During a vacation on the Baltic coast later that year, he met Dora Dymant (Diamant), a young Jewish socialist. The couple lived in Berlin until Kafka’s health significantly worsened during the spring of 1924. After a brief final stay in Prague, where Dymant joined him, he died of tuberculosis in a clinic near Vienna. You Can Now Explore an Unseen Trove of Franz Kafka’s Personal Papers Online. The National Library of has digitized a rare collection of the “Metamorphosis” author’s letters, drawings and manuscripts. During his lifetime, the celebrated Czech Jewish author Franz Kafka penned an array of strange and gripping works, including a novella about a man who turns into a bug and a story about a person wrongly charged with an unknown crime. Now, almost a century after the acclaimed author’s death, literary lovers can view a newly digitized collection of his letters, manuscripts and drawings via the National Library of Israel’s website. As Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports, the collection contains around 120 drawings and more than 200 letters owned by Max Brod, a friend and fellow writer who served as Kafka’s literary executor. Instead of destroying the author’s papers as he had requested, Brod chose to publish and preserve them. Per a blog post, the library acquired the archive after a protracted legal battle with the family of Brod’s secretary, Esther Hoffe, who gained possession of the papers following his death in 1968. Between December 2016 and July 2019, staff transferred the entirety of Brod’s collection— much of which had been stashed in safety deposit boxes—to the Jerusalem-based library. “The Franz Kafka papers will now join millions of other items we have brought online in recent years as part of our efforts to preserve and pass down cultural assets to future generations,” says Oren Weinberg, the library’s director, in a statement quoted by the Jerusalem Post ’s Gadi Zaig. “We are proud to now offer free, open access to them for scholars and millions of Kafka fans in Israel and across the globe.” Highlights of the collection include Kafka’s letters to Brod, fiancée Felice Bauer and theorist Martin Buber, as well as a draft of the short story “Wedding Preparations in the Country,” a journal documenting the writer’s trips to Switzerland and excerpts from the novel The Castle . The archive’s drawings, which date to between 1905 and 1920, range from self-portraits to pictures of other people and quick sketches, reports Ofer Aderet for Haaretz . One is an intimate portrayal of Kafka’s mother, who wears her hair in a high bun and dons small, oval-shaped spectacles. Another ink drawing titled Drinker shows an irate-looking man slumped in front of a glass of wine. Though the majority of the materials have already been published, a select few were previously unknown to researchers. “We discovered unpublished drawings, neither signed nor dated, but that Brod had kept,” curator Stefan Litt tells AFP. He adds, “The big surprise we received when we opened these documents was his blue notebook, in which Kafka wrote in Hebrew, signing ‘K,’ his usual signature.” Born in Prague in 1883, Kafka had a troubled childhood that deeply influenced his work. His two older brothers died in infancy, leaving him the eldest of four surviving children. The young writer also had a strained relationship with both of his parents: Per Encyclopedia Britannica, he said that his father, Herman, was emotionally abusive and prioritized material success and social status above all else. Among the newly digitized papers is a scathing, 47-page letter to Herman; never delivered, it describes Kafka as a “timid child” who cannot have been “particularly difficult to manage.” The author continues, “I cannot believe that a kindly word, a quiet taking by the hand, a friendly look, could not have got me to do anything that was wanted of me.” Kafka met Brod while studying law in Prague. His university years inspired many of his later works, which explored such topics as alienation and unjust punishment—themes the author grappled with both personally and in his career. In 1924, Kafka died at age 40 after a years-long struggle with tuberculosis. In his will, the author implored Brod to destroy his manuscripts, but his friend refused to do so. Instead, Brod collected, edited and published many of Kafka’s iconic texts, including The Trial , and The Castle . When Brod immigrated to Palestine in March 1939, he took most of Kafka’s papers with him. According to the library, Brod relinquished the majority of the documents to Kafka’s heirs—the children of one of his sisters—in 1962; this collection is now housed at the Bodleian Library in Oxford, England. Though Brod’s will directed his secretary, Hoffe, to place the remaining materials in a public archive, she defied his wishes by selling off items from the trove piecemeal. As AFP notes, the “multi-country legal soap opera” that ensued was fittingly “Kafkaesque.” But decades later, the library’s efforts to reunite the collection have finally proven successful. Kafka, for his part, “did not attach much significance to his personal archive,” writes Litt in a blog post. “… Any thought of his personal papers’ importance was foreign to him. One can assume that he did not foresee either the monetary value or near ‘sacred’ aura attributed to each handwritten item today.”