Posts Tagged: franz kafka

the nocturnal applicant
excerpt from the Castle, the Eighteenth Chapter

K. refuses examination
Kafka, excerpt from The Castle, end of the Ninth chapter

Notes on Painting, 2013
Notes, 2013 I have become deeply engaged in a pursuit in painting. I am pursuing the creation of art. Art seems to me the best example of our ability to come closer to what lies just beyond life: the eternal,

Notes on Painting, 2013
Notes, 2013 I have become deeply engaged in a pursuit in painting. I am pursuing the creation of art. Art seems to me the best example of our ability to come closer to what lies just beyond life: the eternal,

Kafka – The Zürau Aphorisms
43. The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already. 50. A man cannot live without a steady faith in something indestructible within

Kafka – The Zürau Aphorisms
43. The dogs are still playing in the yard, but the quarry will not escape them, never mind how fast it is running through the forest already. 50. A man cannot live without a steady faith in something indestructible within

Franz Kafka – The Blue Octavo Notebooks
THE FIRST NOTEBOOK “Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when

Franz Kafka – The Blue Octavo Notebooks
THE FIRST NOTEBOOK “Everyone carries a room about inside him. This fact can even be proved by means of the sense of hearing. If someone walks fast and one pricks up one’s ears and listens, say in the night, when

Franz Kafka – The Burrow
“I live in peace in the inmost chamber of my house, and meanwhile the enemy may be burrowing his way slowly and stealthily straight toward me.” “And if a serious attack were attempted, what pattern of entrance at all would

Franz Kafka – The Burrow
“I live in peace in the inmost chamber of my house, and meanwhile the enemy may be burrowing his way slowly and stealthily straight toward me.” “And if a serious attack were attempted, what pattern of entrance at all would