Category Archives: Franz Kafka

Kafka’s Book of Images – Part 2

Posted on January 25, 2025 by Symbol Reader

SATURN’S SHADOW Reiner Stach published the second volume of Kafka’s biography in 2013 under the title Kafka: The Decisive Years. The volume covers the years 1910 (Kafka’s 27th birthday) till 1915. This period, spanning Kafka’s late twenties to early thirties, … Continue reading →

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Kafka’s Book of Images – Part 1

Posted on September 8, 2024 by Symbol Reader

Each volume of Reiner Stach’s Kafka biography is a gem in its own right. The Early Years, which, due to legal issues, was published last in the trilogy, offers a treasure trove of insights into Kafka’s childhood and formative years. … Continue reading →

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“That’s just who I am”: Is that Kafka? 99 Finds by Rainer Stach

Posted on March 24, 2016 by Symbol Reader

Originally posted on roughghosts:
“Now I’ve taken a closer look at my desk and realized that nothing good can be produced on it. There’s so much lying around here, it creates disorder without regularity, and with none of that agreeableness…

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Kafka’s Sirens

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Symbol Reader

“Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence… someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.” Franz Kafka Last year I posted my tribute to Franz Kafka … Continue reading →

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I Love You, My Secret Raven

Posted on July 16, 2013 by Symbol Reader

It is entirely conceivable that life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fulness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If … Continue reading →