Franz Kafka (1923).
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For Franz Kafka, writing was a strange way of thinking and being in the world.
Elvis performing live at the Mississippi-Alabama Fairgrounds in Tupelo, Mississippi, 26 September 1956.
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Artists draw on their lives and their conflicts to produce their work. Thanks to psychobiography we can see how.
A statue of Franz Kafka by the sculptor Jaroslav Róna in Prague, Czech Republic, inspired by Kafka’s short story “Description of a Struggle.”
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Franz Kafka was not well known during his lifetime, but his legacy provides a useful and necessary way to confront the current state of global affairs.
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In each of his novels, he explored questions that shifted South Africa’s cultural debates, especially about memory and race.
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America’s answer to Kafka and Dostoevsky gets real at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Lolabelle, the artist and musician Laurie Anderson’s dog being taught how to play the piano.
In many cultures and religions dogs are more than protection and security. But do they have an after-life?
Kafka’s creepy descendent.
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Watch The Shining after reading this and you may find that the Czech author haunts The Overlook Hotel just as much, if not more, than any of its regular spectral figures.