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	Franz Kafka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kafka was born July 3, 1883, into a middle-class, German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, Bohemia—at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		The asceticism and self-deprecation with which Kafka is associated is well-documented in the letters of his and of his friends and family; however, it does need to be put into context.It is generally agreed that Kafka suffered from clinical depression and social anxiety through out his entire life.
		(Kafka's condition made his throat too painful to eat, and since intravenous therapy had not been developed, there was no way to feed him.) His body was brought back to Prague where he was buried June 11, 1924, in the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Žižkov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kafka (1351 words)

	The Kafka Project \| Biography
		It is projected on a grander scale in Kafka's novels, which portray in lucid, deceptively simple prose a man's desperate struggle with an overwhelming power, one that may persecute its victim (as in The Trial) or one that may be sought after and begged in vain for approval (as in The Castle).
		Kafka did, however, become friendly with some German-Jewish intellectuals and literati in Prague, and in 1902 he met Max Brod; this minor literary artist became the most intimate and solicitous of Kafka's friends, and eventually he emerged as the promoter, saviour, and interpreter of Kafka's writings and as his most influential biographer.
		In fact, generally speaking, Kafka was a charming, intelligent, and humorous individual, but he found his routine office job and the exhausting double life into which it forced him (for his nights were frequently consumed in writing) to be excruciating torture, and his deeper personal relationships were neurotically disturbed.
	www.kafka.org /index.php?biography (967 words)

	Franz Kafka
		Kafka came from a middle-class Jewish family and grew up in the shadow of his domineering shopkeeper father, who impressed Kafka as an awesome patriarch.
		Kafka spent half his time after 1917 in sanatoriums and health resorts, his tuberculosis of the lungs finally spreading to the larynx.
		In all of these works, as indeed in most of Kafka's mature prose, the lucid, concise style forms a striking contrast to the labyrinthine complexities, the anxiety-laden absurdities, and the powerfully oppressive symbols of torment and anomie that are the substance of the writer's vision.
	kafka.dzite.com (710 words)

	NYSL Travels - Franz Kafka's Prague, A Literary Walking Tour
		Kafka attended a lecture at the center by a Czech politican on working conditions in the United States while Amerika was in gestation.
		Kafka was keenly interested in Czech literature, and unlike many Prague Germans was familiar enough with the language to have enjoyed performances of new plays at the theater.
		Kafka was anorexic, a vegan, a food faddist, a masticator of his food; to join him at the dinner table could literally be a revolting experience.
	www.nysoclib.org /travels/kafka.html (7474 words)

	"Kafka", by Lem Dobbs
		Kafka is surprised to see her, instinctively walking over to where she's sitting at a far table.
		Kafka is too astonished at her behavior to make a move for a moment, then he glances at the bomb-case she's left behind, then he goes out to the landing.
		Kafka looks for the source of the sound -- and in sudden startled shock instantly finds it -- where a huge arm has just been thrust through a small, high window -- and the ugly hand at the end of the arm is feeling around for the window-latch.
	scifiscripts.com /msol/kafka.html (13304 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Franz Kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Kafka's biography reads almost like a critical analysis of his work, for so much of the neurotic tension of his writing finds its clear origin in the events of his life.
		Kafka's ambivalent take on authority-his ability to respect it, rebel against it, and blame himself for everything-seems to come mainly from his relationship with his father.
		Much of Kafka's early writing is lost, but 1912 proved to be a breakthrough year for him as he wrote some of his most important stories, including "The Judgment," "The Metamorphosis," and much of his novel Amerika.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Authors/about_franz_kafka.html (998 words)

	Franz Kafka
		Kafka's ill health was also an important biographical factor behind the fear of physical and mental collapse dramatized in such short stories as "Ein Hungerkünstler" (1924) and "Die Verwandlung" (1915, The Metamorphosis).
		Kafka never visited the United States but his protagonist, the 17-year-old Karl Rossmann, enters New York Harbor as an immigrant and sees the Statue of Liberty, who holds in her hand not a lamp but a sword.
		Kafka pystyi irtautumaan edellisen ja uuden työn etsinnän aiheuttamasta ristipaineesta uudessa toimessaan, jonka mieluisin etu lienee ollut työajan lyheneminen kuuteen tuntiin.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /kafka.htm (2586 words)

	Franz Kafka Biography Pictures Photo Album - Kafka Life story
		In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one — yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham.
		The sculpture was inspired by Kafka’s work, especially the story “Description of a Struggle.” The monument was erected in a tiny park between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the border of Prague’s Jewish district in a place that symbolizes the city’s religious and cultural diversity.
		Kafka’s father was the very opposite of Kafka himself: he was a down-to-earth shopkeeper who was obsessed with money and social success.
	www.kafka-franz.com (3711 words)

	Constructing Franz Kafka
		Kafka's Biography (we are soliciting writers for a more personalized account beyond the basic dates and facts!)
		Teaching Kafka (Lack of enthusiasm of Kafka teachers has caused this section to remain quite small.
		Kafka is internationally known, and you wouldn't believe from which parts of the world we receive desperate mails from people who seek help on a paper on Franz Kafka!
	www.pitt.edu /~kafka/intro.html (353 words)

	Nabokov's Metamorphosis
		The beauty of Kafka's and Gogol's private nightmares is that their central human characters belong to the same private fantastic world as the inhuman characters around them, but the central one tries to get out of that world, to cast off the mask, to transcend the cloak or the carapace.
		Kafka liked to draw his terms from the language of law and science, giving them a kind of ironic precision, with no intrusion of the author's private sentiments; this was exactly what Flaubert's method through which he achieved a singular poetic effect.
		Kafka varies his effects in that every time the beetle is seen by his family he is shown in a new position, some new spot.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vermeer/287/nabokov_s_metamorphosis.htm (10576 words)

	kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unlike most of Kafka's heros, burdened by some nameless guilt, Karl is quite specifically guilty--of having fathered an illegitimate child by a woman twice his age.
		All of Kafka's nightmare fictions vary between a terrible confinement (a cage or a burrow), and an equally terrifying spaciousness: the infinite realm where guilt can never be atoned, quests never achieved.
		This, however, is Kafka's Statue of Liberty, so she is holding aloft not a lamp but...a sword.
	www.princeton.edu /~cb/kafka.html (592 words)

	Fiction: Franz Kafka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who said that a book should serve as "an axe to break up the frozen sea within us," led a simple and sad life.
		Only a few of his friends knew that Kafka was also at work on the great novels that were published after his death from tuberculosis: Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle.
		Kafka's despair with his writing, his job, his father, and his life was all encompassing.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/kafka.htm (405 words)

	Franz Kafka Biography
		Hermann Kafka was born September 14, 1852 in the little town of Wossek, about sixty miles south of Prague, near Pisek, the fourth child of a butcher, Jacob Kafka.
		Also, it's hard to believe Kafka, who was deathly afraid of sex anyway and who wrote pages and pages of letters to Felice about why he couldn't bring himself to do the nasty with her, would then go after her friend.
		Kafka's most complex and perhaps strangest work (no mean feat), it's since been interpreted thousands of times in hundreds of different ways, even though (or perhaps because) it remained unfinished.
	www.kafka-franz.com /kafka-Biography.htm (3354 words)

	Franz Kafka
		Franz Kafka ist ein weltberühmter deutscher Erzähler des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
		Gleichzeitig wurde Kafkas strenge ethische Orientierung von Franz Brentanos Theorie der sittlichen Urteilsfindung wesentlich beeinflußt.
		Wegen seiner strengen sittlichen Maßstäbe verlobte und entlobte Kafka 1914 und 1917 dreimal mit demselben Mädchen.
	www.cwru.edu /artsci/modlang/german380/kafka.html (424 words)

	Malaspina.com - Karl Marx on Kafka (Lecture) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For the events of this story by a Herr Kafka are, as ich shall unmask, a clear warning to you all of what will happen if you do not to my works and my theories sufficient attention pay.
		To understand the story by Herr Kafka, then, all we have to attend to is the klar links between what Gregor does as an unkritikal prole in the society in which he lives and his transformation.
		The story is, in my view, which is, as I explained, the only truth supported by the empirische facts of the case, a warning to you to recognize the ways in which your consciousness und your humanitat are being taken over by the capitalistische forces of the bourgeois market place.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/m4lec5b.htm (1968 words)

	Franz Kafka on the Web
		Uma viagem pela vida e obra de Kafka, Alexander Thoele's Kafka-site.
		The Dutch Franz Kafka Circle has a website with information about their own activities (symposia, quarterly [one of the few special Kafka periodicals in the world!], series, contacts with other Kafka societies [Philadelphia, Vienna, Prague, and South-Korea).
		Ein Seminarbericht Essays on Kafka's short fiction resulting from a course at the Albert Ludwig university in Freiburg, Germany.
	www.pitt.edu /~kafka/links.html (401 words)

	Kafka (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So with Kafka we not only have the externally referential - of Kafka writing a story whilst involving himself in a real-life plot that will in turn become the story he is writing [The Castle] - but also the internal references to Kafka's own biographical history...
		His performance is one of complete restraint, unlike some of his more caricatured performances of recent years, he offers up a mirrored perspective for the audience, lingering in the background of the scene and simply reacting to what is going on around him.
		Whether or not you believe the story to have taken place entirely in Kafka's head [note how the last shot of the film sees Kafka at his writing desk] or whether you see it as the mirroring of fact and fiction is entirely up to you, the viewer.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0102181 (786 words)

	Franz Kafka - Letter to his father
		Kafka spent time with her there during his illness in 1917-18.
		But perhaps that was precisely what you wanted; where there was nothing of the Kafka's, even you could not demand anything of the sort, nor did you feel, as with the rest of us, that something was getting lost which had to be saved by force.
		Besides, it may be that you were never particularly fond of the Kafka element as it manifested itself in women.
	www.kafka-franz.com /KAFKA-letter.htm (11067 words)

	DividingLine.com by Katharena Eiermann, The Realm of Existentialism, quotes by philosophers, existentialism, ...
		The credit for making Franz Kafka internationally famous as a writer of visionary and imaginative fiction belongs to his friend, novelist Max Brod.
		In Kafka's will, Brod was asked to burn all unpublished manuscripts and to refrain from republishing those already in print.
		Kafka was born into a Jewish middle-class family in Prague, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), on July 3, 1883.
	www.dividingline.com /private/Philosophy/Philosophers/Kafka/kafka.shtml (182 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Complete Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		While it is possible to examine Kafka and his work from a psychoanalytic point of view, the point of engaging in such a puerile exercise eludes me. Such an approach is both shallow and unilluminating.
		Kafka's gems, such as "The Metamorphosis," are of the highest literary merit.
		Kafka is abstract and as such his work remains elusive to the reader.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805210555?v=glance (1687 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Literature: Authors: K: Kafka, Franz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Constructing Franz Kafka - Includes his biography, scholarly research and pedagogical exercises, scores of short prose, letters, diaries and texts.
		Kafka, Franz - Notes on several of his works, courtesy of the Literature, Arts and Medicine Database.
		Kafka, Franz (1883-1924) - Biographical essay on the writer, by William J. Dodd.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Literature/Authors/K/Kafka,_Franz (310 words)

	The Kafka Project
		With the general bibliography (under construction) you enter the commentary part of the site; new articles and essays are announced in the home page, and collected in a dedicated part of the site.
		Newly published books about Kafka are presented in a separate section.
		You can contact the team of the Kafka Project through the contact page, or simply drop a line in the guestbook; a search engine helps you to retrive a word or a quote from Kafka's work or from the entire site.
	www.kafka.org (626 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Kafka (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is an intellectual brain-teaser, especially for Kafka readers who will recognize dozens, if not scores, of allusions to Kafka's writing and biography.
		From the opening chase scene until the final shot of Kafka's intense and unnerving stare, it is difficult to take one's eyes off the screen.
		This movies manages brilliantly to convey the menacing atmosphere that we sense in Franz Kafka's books, introduncing elements from 'The Trial' and 'The Castle', mostly, in an original fiction work; the actors are fabulous, the cinematographie is faultless, Jeremy Irons is perfect.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6302622948?v=glance (1572 words)

	Kafka - An Image-Morphing Application (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This release mainly affects the Kafka GUI, adding panning and zooming support for all images and reworking the button mappings for all editing commands, hopefully reducing the complexity of the mouse-wrangling.
		Kafka will also be heavily optimized, making use of SIMD instruction sets such as MMX and SSE where available, because the author really gets off on
		Kafka's image-loading and -saving functionality is provided by DevIL.
	kafka.sourceforge.net (286 words)

	Franz Kafka: Das Schloss - Author Homepage
		Prague honors Kafka with a twelve-foot tall bronze sculpture.
		A list of Kafka criticism, biography, annotations, and guides, with some commentary on the major works.
		Kafka has inspired numerous modern composers, from XXX to Philip Glass.
	www.themodernword.com /kafka (595 words)

	Kafka (1991)
		Kafka: In magazines nobody reads. They should be filed away in the Castle with all the other useless bits of paper.
		Franz Kafka and Libertarian Socialism Here's an article from a "Libertarian Socialist" magazine, New Politics, claiming that politically the real Kafka did indeed have a lot in common with the "revolutionaries and anarchists" depicted in Kafka.
		However, it should be taken with a grain (or a shaker) of salt, since much of the evidence rests on somewhat iffy sources, such as Gustav Janouch, author of Conversations with Kafka, whose authenticity has been strongly debated, and Michal Mares, an anarchist who might not be the most objective of witnesses.
	victorian.fortunecity.com /vermeer/287/kafka.htm (506 words)

	Top XML : SOAP4VB
		Five days and little sleep later, I had what looked like the first cut of an XSLT framework for writing SOAP endpoints.
		I decided to call it Kafka since a piece of software without a catchy name isn't as much fun, and I just can't think of any more SOAP puns.
		For the record, I want to give credit for this idea to Don Box, who proved that you could build an XSL endpoint about a year ago.
	www.topxml.com /soapworkshop/utilities/kafka (797 words)

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