#felice bauer

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer featured in "Letters to Felice,"

[amtskind]

@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

kafka's "maneuver life"

[thequietabsolute]

:: want to hear one of my favourite pieces of trivia? In Kafka’s 200th letter to Felice Bauer he asked, ‘Can you actually read my handwriting?’

[yankeece]

"Tutta la mia natura è diretta alla letteratura, e ad essa mi sono attenuto fino a questi miei 30 anni; se dovessi abbandonarla, semplicemente non vivrei più." — Franz Kafka, Lettera al padre di Felice

[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

I have calmed down; I lay in the woods with a headache and kept turning my head in the grass with the pain; today it is better, but my self-control is no greater than it was before; when dealing with myself I am powerless.

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written c. September 1913 

[drblogg]

“There are times when my longing for you overwhelms me [...] so often I can think of you only with teeth clenched.”

Franz Kafka to Felice Bauer

[a-purple-girl]

"i am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can't find the right words."

-franz kafka (letters to felice)

[catmint1]

I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy and can’t find the right words.

Franz Kafka, letter to Felice Bauer, November 1912

[majestativa]

Kafka extolled Kleist in a letter to his own betrothed, the subsequently forsaken Felice Bauer, as “one of the four men I con- sider to be my true blood-relations.”

— Peter Wortsman, Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist, on Franz Kafka, (2009)

[channeledhistory]

[intellectures]

Kafka in Bild und Ton

Das Kafka-Jahr spielt auch abseits des strikt Literarischen eine zentrale Rolle. Zahlreiche Comics setzen Kafkas Leben und Werke in Text und Bild um. Sven Regener hat Kafkas Werk als Hörbuch eingelesen und für das Frühjahr sind eine Miniserie und ein Kinofilm angekündigt. Continue reading Kafka in Bild und Ton

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1912, featured in Letters To Felice

[amtskind]

happy heavenly birthday to franz kafka! 141 years ago, on the 3rd of july 1883, he was born in prague. 🎻

to commemorate him, i uploaded and translated my 2023 kafka-powerpoint of 90 minutes length, which i held in my german-class...i removed the tasks for the students and of course the phenomenal transitions aren't seen in a pdf, but the rest was kept the same.

so here you go:

🪳 english version

🪳 german version

[lorenzospurio]

Franz Kafka a centoquaranta anni dalla nascita. Con un’interpretazione del “tema natale” dello scrittore boemo.

A cura di Isabella Michela Affinito Senza voler ostentare emulazione nei riguardi del filosofo e storico greco, Plutarco di Cheronea (46 circa – 120 d.C. circa) che redasse le famose Vite parallele ponendo a confronto esistenze di personaggi illustri quali, ad esempio, Cesare con Alessandro Magno, Teseo con Romolo, Aristide con Catone, Cicerone con Demostene, etc., ebbene, il profilo, dalla…

[thebookquotes]

I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can't find the right words.

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, c. November 1912