Kafka

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE

From this interview with Michael Tolkin. We have suffered catastrophes throughout history. Do you think our current one can be corrected? So the story goes that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and biographer, asked Kafka, “Franz, is there hope?” And Kafka answered, “Oh yes, Max, there’s plenty of hope, an infinity of hope — but not forContinue reading “THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE”

ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE

From Aharon Appelfeld: INTERVIEWER The German spoken by your parents, you said later, was similar to the German of Franz Kafka. APPELFELD Yes, Franz Kafka—of all the writers, Franz Kafka. When I read him, he was immediately familiar to me. INTERVIEWER So you had a secular upbringing but with some knowledge of religion from your grandparents?Continue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE”