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1. press.princeton.edu › the-aphorisms-of-franz-kafkaThe Aphorisms of Franz Kafka - Princeton University Press

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   Apr 19, 2022 · In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka’s writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual ...

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2. www.degruyter.com › document › doiThe Aphorisms of Franz Kafka - De Gruyter

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   Apr 19, 2022 · In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka’s writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world.

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4. press.princeton.edu › ideas › kafkas-ultimate-thingsKafka’s “Ultimate Things”: A new reading of the Zürau aphorisms

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   After translating Reiner Stach’s magnificent three-volume Kafka biography—published by Princeton University Press—I have now had the pleasure of returning to Franz Kafka, to Reiner Stach, and to the Press to work on this new annotated edition of Kafka’s aphorisms. Translating this slim but seminal volume has deepened my understanding of all of Kafk...

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   Kafka knew that there are no absolute beginnings; rarely has an author captured, in such compelling images, the exhilarating yet appalling fact that no past is ever past. That is why the fresh start he longed for could not mean simply brushing aside his achievements over the previous year. Even in his Country Doctor stories, which he was still eage...

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   Andrew Hui, A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter(Princeton University Press, 2020), p. 20. Hui also notes the experience readers have come to associate with reading aphoristic writings, “The irony is that the aphorism—this shortest of forms to read—actually takes the longest time to understand.” (p. 6)

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5. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksThe Aphorisms of Kafka: An invaluable guidance along this ...

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   Jul 9, 2022 · The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka. Author: edited by Reiner Stach, trans. Shelley Frisch. ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0691205922. Publisher: Princeton University Press. Guideline Price: £20. Early on the...

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   Feb 1, 2022 · The Zürau Aphorisms (German: Die Zürauer Aphorismen) is a collection of 109 aphorisms of Franz Kafka, written from September 1917 to April 1918 and published by his friend Max Brod in 1931, after his death.

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   How many aphorisms did Franz Kafka write?

   • In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka’s writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world.

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   Is Kafka's Zürau Aphorisms translated into English?

   • The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka is not the first translation into English of Kafka’s “Zürau aphorisms,” but this new edition differs from all older ones in two notable respects.

   Kafka’s “Ultimate Things”: A new reading of the Zürau aphorisms

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   How many aphorisms did Kafka write in Zürau?

   • In Zürau, Kafka collected a series of aphorisms, 109 of them, which he transferred from notebooks on to a set of single, thin sheets of paper. In these gnomic jottings, some of them consisting of no more than a few words, he had moved into new literary territory. As he wrote, “I have never been in this place before.”

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   What does Kafka write about?

   • Among the most mysterious of Kafka’s writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world. This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka’s mind.

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   Why should you read the Aphorisms of Franz Kafka?

   • In short, The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka is an indispensable aid for navigating Kafka’s often disorienting but rewarding verbal sallies. . . . An achievement of the first order by two scholars whose knowledge of their subject can only be called intimidating, and it should be received with gratitude.

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   What aphorisms do you know about Kafka?

   • Probably the most famous is Aphorism 16, “A cage went in search of a bird” – note that kavka is “jackdaw’ in Czech – but many others speak things we seem always to have known, without knowing we knew them. Indeed, it could be argued that, for all their brevity and compression, in the aphorisms we find the essential Kafka.

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9. muse.jhu.edu › book › 100477The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka - Project MUSE

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   A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka’s acclaimed biographer. In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them.