Talk about Franz Kafka
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I'm working on a book on Franz Kafka and would like to interact with other people willing to discuss his life and works.
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I feel this in my core
February 4, 2026 at 12:46 PM
I feel this in my core
Musil sees in Franz Kafka's Stoker Kafka's own soul:
A primordial drive to goodness takes shape in Kafka’s story—no resentment, rather something of the submerged passion of childhood for Goodness.... and much for which one can conceive of no other expression save moral tenderness.
A primordial drive to goodness takes shape in Kafka’s story—no resentment, rather something of the submerged passion of childhood for Goodness.... and much for which one can conceive of no other expression save moral tenderness.
From @genesegrill.bsky.social: "It is astonishing to experience Musil experiencing and trying to describe the new phenomena of Robert Walser and Franz Kafka here, fresh, unprepared, astonished." genesegrill.substack.com/p/musils-191...
Musil's 1914 Review of Walser and Kafka
"...the moral richness of one of those seemingly useless, lethargic days, when our firmest convictions loosen into a pleasant languidness..."
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January 29, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Musil sees in Franz Kafka's Stoker Kafka's own soul:
A primordial drive to goodness takes shape in Kafka’s story—no resentment, rather something of the submerged passion of childhood for Goodness.... and much for which one can conceive of no other expression save moral tenderness.
A primordial drive to goodness takes shape in Kafka’s story—no resentment, rather something of the submerged passion of childhood for Goodness.... and much for which one can conceive of no other expression save moral tenderness.
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Time to get super into Kafka again I guess
January 3, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Time to get super into Kafka again I guess
Great Post on Kafka anniversaries. Maybe I can finish my own book on Franz Kafka this year. Maybe more people will get involved in writing comments on Kafka and his life and works on this Talk about Kafka BlueSky site. But maybe not!
It's the last day of the 100th anniversary year of the publication of Kafka's The Trial, which might explain what we saw in 2025. Don't worry, though—2026 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Kafka's more hopeful novel The Castle, so it should be a good year.
January 1, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Great Post on Kafka anniversaries. Maybe I can finish my own book on Franz Kafka this year. Maybe more people will get involved in writing comments on Kafka and his life and works on this Talk about Kafka BlueSky site. But maybe not!
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A fellow traveler with a deep interest in Franz Kafka.
Elana Wolff: Faithfully Seeking Franz
Elana Wolff: Faithfully Seeking Franz
December 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A fellow traveler with a deep interest in Franz Kafka.
Elana Wolff: Faithfully Seeking Franz
Elana Wolff: Faithfully Seeking Franz
An excellent reading of The Metamorphosis by Christopher Plummer as Vladimir Nabokov lecturing at Cornell University.
In his final comment Nabokov decides that the scientist has passion; but it is the artist who has precision.
#Franz #Kafka #FranzKafka
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In his final comment Nabokov decides that the scientist has passion; but it is the artist who has precision.
#Franz #Kafka #FranzKafka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mc5...
Nabokov on Kafka (1989)
YouTube video by Burak
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November 29, 2025 at 9:55 PM
An excellent reading of The Metamorphosis by Christopher Plummer as Vladimir Nabokov lecturing at Cornell University.
In his final comment Nabokov decides that the scientist has passion; but it is the artist who has precision.
#Franz #Kafka #FranzKafka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mc5...
In his final comment Nabokov decides that the scientist has passion; but it is the artist who has precision.
#Franz #Kafka #FranzKafka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mc5...
A nice pair of quotes from Camus then Kafka - and a nice photo to go with them. Congrats.
#FranzKafka #Kafka #Camus
#FranzKafka #Kafka #Camus
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
– Franz Kafka
– Franz Kafka
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
A nice pair of quotes from Camus then Kafka - and a nice photo to go with them. Congrats.
#FranzKafka #Kafka #Camus
#FranzKafka #Kafka #Camus
From Janouch, Conversations with Kafka:
"Most men are not wicked,” said Franz Kafka, talking of Leonhard Frank’s book Man Is Good. “Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.”
#FranzKafka
"Most men are not wicked,” said Franz Kafka, talking of Leonhard Frank’s book Man Is Good. “Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.”
#FranzKafka
The terror of the situation… is that in a very real way this is far worse than…
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
From Janouch, Conversations with Kafka:
"Most men are not wicked,” said Franz Kafka, talking of Leonhard Frank’s book Man Is Good. “Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.”
#FranzKafka
"Most men are not wicked,” said Franz Kafka, talking of Leonhard Frank’s book Man Is Good. “Men become bad and guilty because they speak and act without foreseeing the results of their words and their deeds. They are sleepwalkers, not evildoers.”
#FranzKafka
A wonderful analysis of Kafka's "The Problem or our Laws" relevant to current times. Who are the 'people' of a democracy? Do the 'Nobles' get to decide? Or the 'people'?
#FranzKafka #Kafka
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
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#FranzKafka #Kafka
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
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Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
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November 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
A wonderful analysis of Kafka's "The Problem or our Laws" relevant to current times. Who are the 'people' of a democracy? Do the 'Nobles' get to decide? Or the 'people'?
#FranzKafka #Kafka
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
lithub.com/judith-butle...
#FranzKafka #Kafka
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
lithub.com/judith-butle...
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✨ Kafka knew the intoxication of his own isolation, and in Milena, he found a mirror—a flame that threatened to consume the very silence he lived within. Listen closely to the voice of longing, where the only reality is the truth found in their letters. #booksky #LettersToMilena #FranzKafka #Prague
Franz Kafka | Letters to Milena Excerpt | Read by Nico V. Isotalo
YouTube video by Nico V. Isotalo
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November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
✨ Kafka knew the intoxication of his own isolation, and in Milena, he found a mirror—a flame that threatened to consume the very silence he lived within. Listen closely to the voice of longing, where the only reality is the truth found in their letters. #booksky #LettersToMilena #FranzKafka #Prague
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11 XI 11 Saturday
Indubitable in me is the greed for books. Not so much to own or to read them as to see them, to convince myself in a bookseller’s display of their continued existence.
Franz Kafka
Diaries
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
Indubitable in me is the greed for books. Not so much to own or to read them as to see them, to convince myself in a bookseller’s display of their continued existence.
Franz Kafka
Diaries
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 AM
11 XI 11 Saturday
Indubitable in me is the greed for books. Not so much to own or to read them as to see them, to convince myself in a bookseller’s display of their continued existence.
Franz Kafka
Diaries
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
Indubitable in me is the greed for books. Not so much to own or to read them as to see them, to convince myself in a bookseller’s display of their continued existence.
Franz Kafka
Diaries
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
"In 1902, Max Brod met Franz Kafka in Prague's "Reading and Speaking Hall of German Students," where Kafka was giving a lecture on Arthur Schopenhauer. A lifelong friendship began."
This google translation is wrong about who gave the talk. It was Max Brod. Still, it is a nice picture.
This google translation is wrong about who gave the talk. It was Max Brod. Still, it is a nice picture.
Max Brod trifft 1902 in der Prager „Lese- und Redehalle der deutschen Studenten“ Franz Kafka, als dieser dort einen Vortrag über Arthur Schopenhauer hielt. Eine lebenslange Freundschaft beginnt.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"In 1902, Max Brod met Franz Kafka in Prague's "Reading and Speaking Hall of German Students," where Kafka was giving a lecture on Arthur Schopenhauer. A lifelong friendship began."
This google translation is wrong about who gave the talk. It was Max Brod. Still, it is a nice picture.
This google translation is wrong about who gave the talk. It was Max Brod. Still, it is a nice picture.
Nice excerpt. It is not just a Kafka nightmare turned into fiction; we are living in this world of Josef K.
#TheTrial
#FranzKafka
What sort of men were they…What office did they represent? After all,K. lived in a state governed by law,there was universal peace,all statutes were in force…He'd always tended to take things lightly,to believe the worst only when it arrived,making no provision for the future…
#FranzKafka
What sort of men were they…What office did they represent? After all,K. lived in a state governed by law,there was universal peace,all statutes were in force…He'd always tended to take things lightly,to believe the worst only when it arrived,making no provision for the future…
October 13, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Nice excerpt. It is not just a Kafka nightmare turned into fiction; we are living in this world of Josef K.
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I'm fascinated by this Kafka quote; but I would like to know the context of when he wrote this. That is important to me if I'm to interpret it as Kafka intended it.
What if a psychopathic murderer wrote it? Is it possible for one's "most intense obsessions ""to be evil yet true to one's "soul"?
What if a psychopathic murderer wrote it? Is it possible for one's "most intense obsessions ""to be evil yet true to one's "soul"?
October 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I'm fascinated by this Kafka quote; but I would like to know the context of when he wrote this. That is important to me if I'm to interpret it as Kafka intended it.
What if a psychopathic murderer wrote it? Is it possible for one's "most intense obsessions ""to be evil yet true to one's "soul"?
What if a psychopathic murderer wrote it? Is it possible for one's "most intense obsessions ""to be evil yet true to one's "soul"?
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Franz Kafka : The Thinker, 1913
September 21, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Franz Kafka : The Thinker, 1913
This is Kafka-Land as Judith Butler found out. Anyone can be arrested or fired from their jobs without any explanation of why. The Supreme Court just ok'ed this procedure.
#Kafka #FranzKafka
This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
#Kafka #FranzKafka
This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
Opinion | This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.
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September 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This is Kafka-Land as Judith Butler found out. Anyone can be arrested or fired from their jobs without any explanation of why. The Supreme Court just ok'ed this procedure.
#Kafka #FranzKafka
This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
#Kafka #FranzKafka
This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...
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Words of wisdom. #FranzKafka #QuoteOftheDay
September 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Words of wisdom. #FranzKafka #QuoteOftheDay
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19 (September 1917)
It is the age of the wound more than its depth and overgrowth that makes it painful. To be torn open again and again in the same wound channel, to see the wound that has been operated on countless times taken under treatment again, this is what is awful.
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
It is the age of the wound more than its depth and overgrowth that makes it painful. To be torn open again and again in the same wound channel, to see the wound that has been operated on countless times taken under treatment again, this is what is awful.
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
September 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
19 (September 1917)
It is the age of the wound more than its depth and overgrowth that makes it painful. To be torn open again and again in the same wound channel, to see the wound that has been operated on countless times taken under treatment again, this is what is awful.
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
It is the age of the wound more than its depth and overgrowth that makes it painful. To be torn open again and again in the same wound channel, to see the wound that has been operated on countless times taken under treatment again, this is what is awful.
#BookSky
#FranzKafka
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Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More
Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure
lithub.com/writer-resis...
Kafka at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #translators #literature
Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure
lithub.com/writer-resis...
Kafka at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #translators #literature
September 13, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More
Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure
lithub.com/writer-resis...
Kafka at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #translators #literature
Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure
lithub.com/writer-resis...
Kafka at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...
#books #translators #literature
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September 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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