Kafka

The nightmare of reason

Today is Kafka's 124th birthday. Here's the final paragraph of Ernst Pawel's biography from 1984…

Top ten European modernists

Hurray for Tom McCarthy's top 10 European modernists list. Who could imagine Blanchot getting an unfatuo…

Don’t even wait

This is the Kafka Blog , a blog about the life and works of my favorite author Franz Kafka. Here I’m going to…

More new Kafka translations

Penguin Classics has collected in one volume new or newish translations of the stories Kafka published in hi…

Reviewers' block

Here its comes again, the herd. Treading the same old ground, their own ground, churning it, thick, brown and…

The great year of reading

Spurious has often referred to his "Great Summer of Work" of a couple of years ago. This year mark…

Newsreal

Last night I watched Sky News' live report from Fatboy Slim's beachside party for 20,000 paying gues…

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