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Franz Kafka
Standard Name: Kafka, Franz
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Friends, Associates | Edith Templeton | In 1984 the novelist Anita Brookner
met ET
at Bordighera. After their meeting, according to Templeton, they corresponded until the friendship was broken by Templeton's shock at discovering that Brookner had trained with Anthony Blunt |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka
's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa
and Edwin Muir |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | Organized into thirty-four short chapters on ancient Greek love lyrics, this work is a scholarly analysis of eros as an elemental metaphysical structure of human life. In characteristically eccentric fashion, AC
begins her study of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | AC
's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos
in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne
, Samuel Beckett
, Franz Kafka
, an FBI
report on Bertolt Brecht |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Other texts that HC
considers here are Franz Kafka
's Before the Law (a segment of The Trial), James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seven works... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jackie Kay | One story, Shell, draws from Kafka
's Metamorphosis, as an overweight single mother grows a shell and becomes a tortoise. Almost all of the stories focus on women, and the most optimistic concern... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Ali Smith | Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent... |
Literary responses | Medbh McGuckian | Thomas McCarthy
wrote in the Cork Literary Review that this volume consolidates what is already an achieved and unique presence in Irish poetry. Her mind is astonishing—within her world Kafka
dines comfortably with Vita Sackville-West
. |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Critic Edward Wagenknecht
, believing that the author's creative powers were at their peak at the very end of her life, Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press. 165 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Literary responses | Jean Rhys | Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time... |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Material Conditions of Writing | Willa Muir | After WM
finished translating Kafka
's short-story volume The Penal Colony, Stories and Short Pieces, she broke down from exhaustion: my ravaged nervous system began to make itself more felt: I found myself shivering... |
Timeline
3 July 1883: Franz Kafka, novelist, was born in Prague,...
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3 July 1883
Franz Kafka
, novelist, was born in Prague, Bohemia.
3 June 1924: Franz Kafka, novelist, died in Kierling,...
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3 June 1924
Franz Kafka
, novelist, died in Kierling, Austria.
1937: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1884-1924)—published...
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1937
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
(1884-1924)—published in German as Die Verwandlung—first appeared in English, translated by A. L. Lloyd
; its English title was later Metamorphosis.
1983: The title of Maggie Ross's novel Milena,...
Women writers item
1983
The title of Maggie Ross
's novelMilena, published by Collins
, refers to Kafka
's mistress Milena Jesenská
.
16 April 2007: Novelist Yann Martel began a project of sending...
Writing climate item
16 April 2007
Novelist Yann Martel
began a project of sending a book every two weeks to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
together with an admonitory letter; on a website he recorded the books sent and gave the...
1 July 2007: British publisher Tank Books released a series...
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1 July 2007
British publisher Tank Books
released a series of classic books, Tales to Take Your Breath Away, designed to mimic cigarette packets—the same size, packaged in flip-top cartons with silver foil wrapping and sealed in cellophane.
TankBooks: Tales to Take Your Breath Away. http://web.archive.org/web/20090620103236/http://www.tankmagazine.com/tankbooks/.
Texts
Kafka, Franz. America. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, G. Routledge and Sons, 1938.
Kafka, Franz. Metamorphosis and Other Stories. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, Penguin Books, 1961.
Kafka, Franz. The Castle. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, M. Secker, 1930.
Kafka, Franz. The Penal Colony. Translators Muir, Willa and Edwin Muir, Schocken Books, 1948.
Kafka, Franz. The Trial. Translators Muir, Edwin and Willa Muir, V. Gollancz, 1937.