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— March 26, 1911 / Franz Kafka diaries
[Draft of a letter to Max Brod for his birthday on May 27]
#writing a happy birthday letter a month in advance for your best friend is…#franz kafka#daily kafka#franz kafka diaries#quotes#alt text#letters#max brod
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@sepulkralkreatur and i binge-watched the new kafka biopic-series, produced by german television. and i got to say - i loved it so much.
it combined the littlest details from kafka's life and also his aftermath, with his literary work - which often was linked to certain events. for those who read his work and diaries/biographies, spotting all the little references was very fun. and one of my most favourite things was probably the narrator with the reoccurring break of the fourth wall - as well as the music and collage-esque animations.
every episode was told through the perspective of significant people from kafka's life and dealt with a certain theme:
- as well as a 7th bonus-episode "kafka and me", which was more of a documental biography take with interviews, with a dog narrating the scenario and kafka's impact on our society.
joel basman did a great job at portraying franz kafka. the voice, the laugh and facial expressions being awkward all were very fitting and closing the hole, that we as readers experience towards kafka as a person.
the non-linear series served the exact atmosphere, that i associate with kafka: tragedy, humour, and the absurd. daniel kehlmann and david schalko did a great job on writing it. chapeau!
more posts about this series:
comparison of the actors and their roles
intro animations
scene: kafka at the yiddish theater
scene: kafka laughing
franz, dora and their shadow-play
kafka's literary works in the series
#dora diamant#franz kafka#kafka#felice bauer#milena jesenská#max brod#kafka biography#1920s#kafka series#kafka serie#kafka movie#movies#kafka biopic#movie review#daniel kehlmann#joel basman#david schalko#kafka 2024#ard
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—Disco Elysium (2019)
“We are,” he said, “nihilistic thoughts, suicidal thoughts that rise up in God’s head”. This reminded me of the worldview of the Gnostics: God is an evil demiurge; the world reflects his fall into sin. “Oh no,” he said, “our world is just a bad mood of God, a bad day.” — “So outside of this world manifestation, which we know, would there be a world that knows hope?” — He smiled: “Oh, hope enough, infinite hope, — just not for us.”
—Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography
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[franz kafka] to max brod, october 25, 1923
#hiyutekivigil#franz kafka#kafka#kafka letters#max brod#leetters#words#quotes#lit#literature#academia#dark academia#light academia#classic academia#dead poets society#writers of tumblr#writing
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— Milena Jesenská, from a letter to Max Brod (July 21, 1920)
#quotes#literature#letters#milena jesenská#max brod#letters to milena#franz kafka#classic literature
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Ich erinnere mich eines Gesprächs mit Kafka, das vom heutigen Europa und dem Verfall der Menschheit ausging. „Wir sind“, so sagte er, „nihilistische Gedanken, Selbstmordgedanken, die in Gottes Kopf aufsteigen“. Mich erinnerte das zuerst an das Weltbild der Gnosis: Gott als böser Demiurg, die Welt sein Sündenfall. „O nein,“ meinte er, „unsere Welt ist nur eine schlechte Laune Gottes, ein schlechter Tag.“ — „So gäbe es außerhalb dieser Erscheinungsform Welt, die wir kennen, Hoffnung?“ — Er lächelte: „Oh, Hoffnung genug, unendlich viel Hoffnung, — nur nicht für uns.“
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Recuerdo una conversación con Kafka sobre la Europa actual y la decadencia de la humanidad: «Somos», así dijo él, «pensamientos nihilistas, pensamientos suicidas que surgen de la cabeza de Dios». Me acordé al principio de la imagen de mundo de la Gnosis (*gnosticismo): Dios como demiurgo maligno, el mundo como pecado original. «Oh, no», pensó él, «nosotros solo somos un mal antojo (*humor) de Dios, un mal día». —«¿Así que habría esperanza fuera de esta apariencia (*forma del fenómeno) del mundo que conocemos?». Él rió: «Oh, hay esperanza suficiente, esperanza infinita — solo que no para nosotros».
—Max Brod, «Der Dichter Kafka», originalmente publicado en Die Neue Rundschau (1921), compilado en Juden in der deutschen Literatur. Essays über zeitgenössische Schriftsteller. Disponible online en el sitio web de Lexikus Verlag.
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“On Sundays Kafka goes for walks by himself, without any objective, without thinking. He says, ‘Every day I wish myself off the earth. There is nothing wrong with me except myself.’”
—from a note by Max Brod, early 1911
#poets on tumblr#dark academia#aesthetic#spilled poetry#words#spilled ink#spilled thoughts#19th century#vintage#love poem#Max Brod
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La cosa, no cabe duda, se presenta de la siguiente manera: todos, a lo que parece, somos capaces de vivir porque alguna vez nos refugiamos en la mentira, en la ceguera, en el entusiasmo, en el optimismo, en una convicción, el pesimismo, o en lo que quiera que sea.
Pero él nunca se ha refugiado en un asilo protector, en ninguno. Es absolutamente incapaz de mentir, como es incapaz de emborracharse. Carece del menor refugio, no tiene techo. Por eso está a merced de todo aquello de lo que nosotros estamos resguardados. Es como un hombre desnudo entre gente vestida.
Milena Jesenka, en una carta a Max Brod.
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Franz Kafka, Die Mäuse. Auszüge aus Briefen an Felix Weltsch, Max Brod, Oskar Baum und Milena Jesenská, Edited by Dino Simonett, Edition Dino Simonett, 2017
#graphic design#typography#correspondence#illustration#book#cover#book cover#back cover#franz kafka#felix weltsch#max brod#oskar baum#milena jesenská#dino simonett#edition dino simonett#2010s
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Mir ist da die Hand ausgerutscht
#but like they literally have a best friends to lovers timeline going on#and they have that no-one-gets-me-except-you-thing#ja es ist aus der Luft gegriffen weil ich mich ablenken musste#franz kafka#max brod#franz kafka x max brod#was soll ich sagen ich bin delusional
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franz kafka by robert andrew parker (1994)
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november 10th 1917, diaries
the metamorphosis 1915
gregor samsa with father, mother and uncles
a country doctor 1921
in the penal colony 1920
kafka and brod at night
the aeroplanes of brescia (kafka and brod)
#franz kafka#kafka#1920s#max brod#robert andrew parker#art#etching#metamorphosis#gregor samsa#a country doctor#in the penal colony#illustration
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[franz kafka] to max brod, end of july 1922
#hiyutekivigil#franz kafka#kafka#kafka letters#max brod#quotes#words#lit#literature#academia#academia aesthetic#dead poets#dead poets society
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Kafka and Milena spent four days—including Kafka’s birthday—together in Vienna, taking extended walks in the woods around Vienna. Months later, Milena described to Max Brod how well Kafka felt at that time and how little his sickness was in evidence.
#letters to milena#metamorphesque membership#franz kafka#milena jesenská#love letters#classic literature#translated literature#art recs#poetry recs#poetry#dark academia#romantic academia#max brod
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From "Kafka's Last Trial" by Benjamin Balint.
#fellas is it gay to embrace your best friend while standing in a lake just asking for a friend#franz kafka#kafka#max brod#kafkaesque#do yall think they explored each others bodies idk#gay as fuck#reiner stach#kafka was gigantic ngl tf 6 feet tall#brod was just petite asf lol
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