Franz Kafka

(3. Juli 1883 - 3. Juni 1924)

[franzkavkas]

Franz Kafka Gedenkraum, Kierling, Lower Austria

[franzkavkas]

A page from Dora Diamant’s “Kafka diary”, which she started in 1951 after learning that she was dying. Partial translation below:

It is time to say at this point, that my notes on Franz will be better than they have been up until now. I let them stand, only in case I might be prevented for some reason to be able to complete them. They bear about the same relationship to what I have envisioned as Franz’s writings to that which he envisioned…All exaggerations in this journal are, from my point of view, genuine. Therefore I leave them, in case I don’t succeed in finding a better form for what I want to say — but in no case do I wish that what I have said be made public in this form…

[franzkavkas]

Kafka For Kids (2022) by Israeli artist Roee Rosen is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka’s tales palpable for toddlers. The story delivered in this first episode is The Metamorphosis. While the tale of Gregor Samsa's transformation into a vermin is rendered in animation, the reading of the story occurs in live action, in the magical story-house, where an unnamed grandparent figure reads the story to a child, surrounded by a troupe of lively objects, such as Ms. Lamp and Mr. Table. These animistic friends dub the tale's characters, and perform the film's songs, accompanied by a toy orchestra. As the plot thickens, the ensemble is joined by other mascots, such as The Bearer of Bad News, who, true to his name, delivers with each of his visits a disastrous development, the first of which is the fact that Kafka himself prohibited visual depictions of the vermin. The centrality of the law in Kafka’s writings and thought, and the notions of childhood that are explored in the film lead towards its end to a very different narrative realm: an exposition of the complex and troubling ways in which childhood is legally circumscribed in the occupied territories by military law.

[franzkavkas]

Have you read anything by Franz Kafka?

Yes but diaries + letters only

Yes, fiction

No

Never heard of Kafka

Voting ended onDec 14, 2023

[scarynewboyfriend]

no fiction plus personal writing option?

[franzkavkas]

idk how true this is anymore but in my experience the fiction and personal writing tend to have mutually exclusive audiences

[dein-f]

Definitely read both. In Germany, "Die Verwandlung" can be part of the lesson plan. We actually read quite a few stories by him in German class. Then I read the diaries + letters in my free time. I love both.

[lionfloss]

by danielmercadante

[franzkavkas]

You had hardly described our meeting in Berlin when I was already dreaming of it…we weren’t walking arm in arm, admittedly, but we were closer to each other than when people are arm in arm. Oh God, it’s difficult to describe on paper my invention for not walking arm in arm, not being conspicuous, but still walking very close to you…

But wait, I’ll draw it. Walking arm in arm is like this. But we were walking like this.

Franz Kafka, Letter to Felice Bauer, February 11th/12th, 1913

[franzkavkas]

“The ugly word ‘Kafkaesque’ is an invention, but it is precisely this ‘Kafkaesque’ which Kafka detested and fought most violently. Kafkaesque is that which Kafka was not! He loved the natural, pure, good, and constructive, not the oddly-eerie, hopeless, not the strange that he always perceives and notes as a given in the world…this tender yet steel-like soul was not turned to destruction but to blossoming.”

— Max Brod, The Prague Circle

[saintsebastiensbf]

kafka only kept a journal bc he didn’t have a tumblr blog

[worteschuetttlerin]

Franz Kafka - Tagebücher (1916)

[yearningheart]

babe wake up the new franz kafka diary entry that eerily parallels your feelings and situations corresponding to each specific date just dropped

[jacayls-deactivated20230529]

logging on to see if any mutuals reblogged the kafka diary entry of the day

[worteschuetttlerin]

Franz Kafka - Tagebücher (1916)

[soft-october-night]

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from unsettling dreams to find that his Zoom filter had been transformed into a gigantic insect.

[soft-october-night]

"I'm here!" He pleaded with his indifferent employers. "I... I'm not a bug."

[williamsockner]

@buetterfliege​

[xenosagaepisodeone]

Submerging an Italian in olive oil like you would an Evangelion pilot in LCL so they can operate at maximum psychological capacity

[santa-destroy-deactivated202211]

this is what my bellisima mama did to me when i was but a six year old little bambine and now im so unbelievably fucked up

[ifrits-deactivated20210804]

yeah ill reblog that

[franzkavkas]

You had hardly described our meeting in Berlin when I was already dreaming of it…we weren’t walking arm in arm, admittedly, but we were closer to each other than when people are arm in arm. Oh God, it’s difficult to describe on paper my invention for not walking arm in arm, not being conspicuous, but still walking very close to you…

But wait, I’ll draw it. Walking arm in arm is like this. But we were walking like this.

Franz Kafka, Letter to Felice Bauer, February 11th/12th, 1913

[subdee]

#when people say kafkaesque they mean this 

Too good to hide in tags…  

[franzkavkas]

he is literally writing to his female fiance

[erikos-libertarian-socialist]

[flipocrite]

reminder that Gregor Samsa’s first thought to his kafkaesque metamorphosis was “aw shit I still have to go to work”

[hampop]

I’m sorry did you just refer to the metamorphosis in the book Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka as “Kafkaesque”

[filthburger]

the committee for deciding who should be turned into a vermin has decided, and thus is writing to inform you (or a member of your household) that on this day,

[franzkavkas]

does anyone in this thread smoke weed.

[daughterofhecata]

Ausschnitt aus einer Analyse von Das Urteil: “Eher bestätigen sich die zuvor erwähnten Bedenken. Es gibt sogar einen Konsens vieler Interpreten über die prinzipielle Nicht-Interpretierbarkeit der Texte.”

Kafka: *writes Das Urteil* everyone: what the FUCK is this supposed to mean?