Vienna has neglected the sanatorium where Franz Kafka died. Berlin has left commemoration of Kafka’s time there to private initiatives. And the Czech government sees Kafka more as a tourist magnet than as a cultural icon
Franz Kafka was a German-language novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. Wikipedia
Born: July 3, 1883, Prague, Czech Republic
Died: June 3, 1924, Kierling, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
―from "The Metamorphosis" (1915)
―from "The Metamorphosis" (1915)
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