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Woolly Days (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Franz Kafka was everywhere. Wherever you looked in Prague, the unsmiling visage of the city’s greatest writer popped up. The pensive face was in shop windows, on road signs, postcards, t-shirts, coffee mugs, graffiti and even appearing on beer bottles. Such ubiquity seemed Kafkaesque seeing as the writings of the man himself dealt largely with matters that were usually just quite...
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Quaerentia (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Ages ago, I signed up to a cunning deal that Penguin books had, namely that if you agreed to review a book on their website, they’d agree to send it free. So I did it for a laugh, not knowing what I’d end up with. A few days later, our faithful Correspondence Delivery Operative posted Franz Kafka’s The Great Wall of China through the letterbox. Well, that wouldn’t exactly have been my...
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<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | yesterday
>>This event—finally, the translation and publication of the last known scrap of Kafka’s work left untranslated, and unpublished—brings us to the subject of this series: how Kafka’s office writings influenced his fiction, and what that influence means. Kafka’s office writings, as presented here, cannot be read on their own (they are incomprehensibly boring) but, instead, [...]...
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3rings (Free subscription) | yesterday
... creative comparison—the ability to invoke anyone from Stanley Kubrick to Katherine Hepburn, from Franz Kafka to Dr. Seuss! What other design blog would encourage such flights of fancy? None that I can think of. So with such philosophical waxing in mind, here are five products that satisfy this double-duty of engaging with the world at large (always in rare and surprising ways) as...
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Okiedoke (Free subscription) | yesterday
... all), I got the idea to put this title (headline) from the novel “America” by famous jewish writer Franz Kafka. This novel is published posthumously in 1927. I understand very well that you take Oklahoma personally, but in this novel (and for me) the Oklahoma is above all a metaphorical (virtual, dreamlike) place – main character in this novel is an emigrant (he is LOST in America)...
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Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
The Five Books of Moses, edited and translated by Robert Alter. Billy Budd and Other Tales, by Hermann Melville. The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories, by Franz Kafka. Smilla’s Sense of Snow, by Peter Hoeg. The Art...
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Bibliophile Stalker (Free subscription) | 30/11/2008
Every Monday, I'll be doing spoiler-free, bite-sized book/magazine reviews. If there's anything that caught my eye in Living With the Dead , it's the bizarreness of the atmosphere that makes Darrel Schweitzer seem like the spiritual successor to Franz Kafka. Much of the events is an enigma with only the barest hints of an explanation combined with the pervasive clash of hope and futility....
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Cartoon Brew (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Michael Sporn has a complete list of all the animated shorts eligible for an Oscar this year, along with links to their official websites. It’s heartening to see so many powerful and thought-provoking films in contention this year, among them Chainsaw by Dennis Tupicoff, Franz Kafka’s A Country Doctor by Koji Yamamura, A Letter to [...]
