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May 31, 2024 · The Zürau aphorisms, glittering diamonds of Kafka’s genius for compression, revolve around this recurring theme: “The crows assert that a single crow could destroy the heavens. This is certainly true, but it proves nothing against the heavens, because heaven means precisely: the impossibility of crows”.
May 31, 2024 · The coincidence of the centenary of Kafka’s death, on 3 June, and the publication of the first complete, uncensored English translation of his diaries a month before, is less straightforward than it seems. There are more obvious texts through which to tell the story of his last days.
May 20, 2024 · (?) “Leopards break into the temple and drink all the sacrificial vessels dry; it keeps happening; in the end, it can be calculated in advance and is incorporated into the ritual.” ― Franz Kafka, The Zürau Aphorisms. Read more quotes from Franz Kafka. Share this quote: Like Quote. Recommend to friends.
But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”. ― Franz Kafka.
May 16, 2024 · When Kafka came to Siřem on 12 September 1917, it was a Sudeten German village called Zürau, still part of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was much bigger and more extensive than it is...
Jun 2, 2024 · Franz Kafka > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”. ― Franz Kafka.
May 30, 2024 · Review. Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image. This exhibition is serious, funny, and brilliant all at once – and brings us closer to the real Kafka than ever...
