Court decision on Kafka’s estate
In final twist of long-running dispute, court rejects appeal of heirs of writer Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and biographer, that the estate belongs to them. Franz KafkaMax Brodphilosophical literature
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What makes something “Kafkaesque”?
You can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces — John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces [t]he bewildering mechanisms of power in stories such as The Trial also “point to something much more sinister”—the idea that arcane bureaucracies become self-perpetuating and…
Kafka’s Metamorphosis Turns 100
Micah White in Biography. Kafka used this grotesque scenario as a springboard to explore the confusion and turmoil he experienced as a human living in an uncontrollable modern world. As our world is just as disorderly and unruly as Kafka’s, if not more so, we would be wise to keep The Metamorphosis in mind and…
Kafka’s Metamorphosis: 100 thoughts for 100 years
This in The Guardian. (I once had coffee with Elias Canetti at the Coffee Cup in Hampstead). Elias CanettiFranz KafkaMax BrodMetamorphosisphilosophical literature
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Check out the Kafka Project. Franz KafkaKafkaphilosophical literature
The Autoscopic Author: Kafka and Toole
Once again I have Kafka on my mind. I’ve been amending a review of Toole’s biography Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces by the very excellent Cory MacLauchlin to appear in the Journal of Mind and Behavior. Here is a snippet: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The…
New Kafka Biography
A decent piece in contrast to the recent Atlantic article. Franz Kafkaphilosophical literatureReiner Stachthe years of insight
Philosophical Literature
H/T to a kindred spirit “Infrequent literary reflections by an analytic philosopher” for bringing the slowly but surely growing secondary literature to my attention. Since it was through Kafka that my latent philosophical impulse was first generated, I’ve always wanted to write a piece on some aspect of his work. I have however been granted…
Kafka’s In The Penal Colony
If ever there was a mind that captured the modern condition (our current condition) it is Franz Kafka. Not only that, he must rate as the preeminent novelist of ideas without them being the ideas of the learned man trotted out self-consciously by most (academics and literati) who would be flattered by that appellation. First published…
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