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Daily Rituals
Slate Magazine
Franz Kafka is a good example. In 1908, Kafka landed a position at the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute in Prague, where he was fortunate to be on the coveted “single shift” system, which meant office hours from 8 or 9 in the morning until 2 or 3 ...


Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Saul Friedländer
Times Higher Education
“Eighty years after my birth in Prague in 1932, I somehow closed the circle by publishing a small biographical essay” - his modest description of the book under review here - “on Franz Kafka; the German translation came out a few months before the ...


Great Architects Love a Good Nap
Slate Magazine
The composer Franz Liszt slept poorly at night, so he took an afternoon nap lasting two hours or longer. Franz Kafka, another insomniac, set aside time for a four-hour nap in the late afternoon—although he said these were "usually only attempts" at sleep.


Highbrow Magazine

Franz Kafka and the Politics of a Novel
Highbrow Magazine
This year's 130th birthday of Franz Kafka is concurring with two other anniversaries that are affiliated with his name: the Kafka Conference, which took place in Liblice 50 years ago went down in history as a milestone in the democratization process by ...


Franz Kafka and the socialist response to UKIP
Though Cowards Flinch
And at least until recently, I wasn't convinced by wholly psychoanalytic explanations, though it was fairly obvious that Kafka had a grasp of Freudian concepts of the ego/id. The more I re-read (and have learned German) though, the more convincing I ...


Courthouse News Service

Franz Kafka Heroes Challenge Traffic Tickets
Courthouse News Service
Courthouse News Service. Tuesday, May 14, 2013Last Update: 10:02 AM PT. Franz Kafka Heroes Challenge Traffic Tickets. Tweet. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CN) - A class action claims the City of Center Point and Redflex Traffic Systems illegally ticket drivers by ...


The Bookseller

Bloomsbury's Swainson buys 'Turkish Franz Kafka'
The Bookseller
Bloomsbury has signed rights to two novels from an author described as the 'Turkish Franz Kafka'. Following a British Council and London Book Fair publisher¹s visit to Istanbul in November last year, Bill Swainson (pictured) at Bloomsbury and Anton ...


Kafka And Son Is Coming To Budapest On 18 May
XpatLoop.com
At the age of 36 Franz Kafka was still living at home, a petty bureaucrat, a failed artist and timid Jewish son. Ruling and ruining his life was his overbearing father, Hermann. What to do? Kafka wrote, in this case a 50 page letter to his father in ...


Waarom Franz Kafka (niet meer) actueel is
Nederlands Dagblad (persbericht) (abonnement)
De man die bij het raam op een boodschap van de keizer wacht, is direct met Kafka verwant. Natuurlijk is de Oostenrijks-Praags-Joodse Duitstalige schrijver Franz Kafka (1883–1924) nooit helemaal uit het zicht van onze cultuur verdwenen. Maar de brede ...


Kafka 4 Kidz!
Heeb Magazine
Franz Kafka wrote strange tales of alienation, conflict, and the meaningful meaningless of existence. That Kafka's stories could be adapted for children seems, on the surface, to be an exercise in futility. And yet, as Matthue Roth's My First Kafka ...