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3 days ago · The Metamorphosis is a short novel by Franz Kafka. Kafka’s work only became famous after his death. Just before his death, as a last request, Kafka asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his diaries, manuscripts, letters etc. Luckily Brod didn’t honour Kafka’s request and today we can explore his work. There even is a genre called Kafkaesque.
5 days ago · Oxford Reads Kafka: A Metamorphosis in Your Hands. 2024 isn’t just any year for Franz Kafka fans. The literary giant is being celebrated in grand style. The hundred-year anniversary of his untimely death has been embraced with particular fervour by the University of Oxford. The German-speaking writer published seven small books in his ...
1 day ago · Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was born into a Jewish family in Prague. In 1906 he received a doctorate in jurisprudence, and for many years he worked a tedious job as a civil service lawyer investigating claims at the state Worker's Accident Insurance Institute.
1 day ago · There is even a display of books on entomology, a science that flourished in the 19th century and which fascinated Kafka, hence the transformation of the unfortunate Samsa into a beetle. The image of the tortured genius is slightly misleading. As the personal postcards and notes on display demonstrate, Kafka had a wide circle of friends.
5 days ago · A Franz Kafka scholar’s perceptive annotation and translation highlights every subtle shade of humor and brilliant aphorism in these singular tales By John Banville / The Guardian In the case, the singular case, of Franz Kafka, the law of diminishing returns might be applied in an adapted form: the more diminished the text, the richer the return.
5 days ago · Despite his fears and traumas, Kafka possessed a deep kindness. One touching anecdote tells of his encounter with a little girl in a park who had lost her doll. Kafka comforted her by writing ...
2 days ago · Many noteworthy titles of the 2000s like The Book Thief by Markus Zusak or The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini —books that are already considered modern classics by an average reader. The same can be said for genres of Surrealism , and Magical Realism portrayed in the books 1Q84 and Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami .
