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Quote of the day by Franz Kafka: ‘The truth is always an abyss. One must, as in a swimming pool, dare to…’ – ‘The Metamorphosis’ author on the difficult journey from everyday reality to deeper truth

Franz Kafka viewed truth as a deep abyss requiring a courageous dive. He believed ordinary life served as a hesitant springboard for this descent. Confronting deeper realities transforms one's perception of familiar things. Kafka, born in 1883, became influential through works he did not intend to publish. His life ended…

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Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it'- A timeless lesson on hope, dreams, imagination, purpose, and the power of human desire

Franz Kafka's quote emphasizes the creative power of belief in unrealized possibilities. He suggests that deep convictions help bring entirely new realities into existence. Many ordinary things we see today began as impossible dreams and ideas. This message applies to everyday life, encouraging persistence and long-term vision. Meaningful creation requires…

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Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'Reality is too heavy for people, so they rent illusions...' -A powerful lesson that exposes our search for escape by the Absurdist fiction novelist known for his Kafkaesque writing style

Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: Franz Kafka's quote, "Reality is too heavy for people, so they rent illusions and call it happiness," highlights the human tendency to seek temporary escapes from uncomfortable truths. His writings, shaped by personal struggles, explore this theme, resonating with modern life's distractions and…

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Quote of the Day by Franz Kafka: 'You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is...'—Top quotes by the Absurdist fiction novelist, author of The Metamorphosis

Quote of the Day: Franz Kafka, a renowned writer, explored themes of isolation and anxiety. His quote suggests that avoiding the world's suffering can paradoxically lead to deeper personal pain. Kafka's life and works, marked by personal struggles and a unique literary style, continue to resonate today. His writings offer…

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Propagandist by Cécile Desprairies; Lovers of Franz K by Burhan Sönmez; Back in the Day by Oliver Lovrenski; Waist Deep by Linea Maja Ernst

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Punishment in search of a crime – Franz Kafka’s The Trial at 100

“A book,” a 20-year-old Franz Kafka wrote to his friend Oskar Pollack in 1904, “must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.” It is a quintessential Kafka image. I see an ice-axe, the sharpened point of its curved metal head shattering a vast plane of ice into hairline…

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The most promising Disco Elysium successor studio says workers must unite to topple Valve's 'digital fiefdom' of Steam

So comrades, come rally.

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Kafka: Selected Stories, edited by Mark Harman review – the master who never wasted a word

A Franz Kafka scholar’s perceptive annotation and translation highlights every subtle shade of humour and brilliant aphorism in these singular tales

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Can’t get you out of my head: why pop culture is still under Kafka’s spell

A century on from the author’s death, the word ‘kafkaesque’ has survived wrangles over his estate, calls for its banishment and being used on the Simpsons and misused as a meme. How did it gain such a hold over culture?

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Metamorphoses by Karolina Watroba; A Cage Went in Search of a Bird; Diaries review – Franz Kafka as more than just a prophet of malaise

To mark the centenary of Franz Kafka’s death, three compelling books – including his unedited diaries – reveal the complexity of the author’s works and why ‘Kafkaesque’ is so reductive

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What we learn about Kafka from his uncensored diaries

On the centenary of his death, a new English translation of the great writer’s journals reveals some surprising details

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Diaries by Franz Kafka review – caught in the act

His uncensored journals disclose a messier, more sexual, complex figure – and reveal much about the process of writing

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Franz Kafka’s dour image hid a much lighter side, a new exhibition reveals

Artefacts on display in Oxford next month show the ‘humorous insights’ of a writer best known for his nightmarish stories

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Friday essay: 'All I am is literature' – Franz Kafka's diaries were the forge of his writing

Picture the scene. It is the closing years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, before the Great War changed such scenes forever. A young man with sound prospects is to meet his fiancée’s father for the first time.

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Margaret Atwood's flamethrower of a stunt and the misguided moral certainty of book burning

If someone had told me a few weeks ago that nearly every major news website and social media account in the English-speaking world would post a video of Margaret Atwood – the 82-year-old matron saint of Canadian letters, the subject of countless doctoral dissertations and at least ten forests worth…

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