Comments on: A Few Moments of History, Horror, and Kafka in Prague

By: LiteraryMinded on Uncorrected Proof « ElephantBlog

LiteraryMinded on Uncorrected Proof « ElephantBlog — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 19:21:37 +0000

...] The complete works of Kafka. That’s right. All of it. The short fiction, the novels, the diaries, the notebooks, and a bunch of biographies and essays about him. I fell in love with this man. I will write about him, I promise, in the future. A taste, from my visit to the Kafka museum in Prague. [...

By: LiteraryMinded

LiteraryMinded — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:14:53 +0000

Isn’t it just? Inside is even better.
There are actually a couple of YouTube videos I found that people have taken outside the museum – it’s funny hearing different accents and their perceptions of the statue.

By: celluloidtongue

celluloidtongue — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:10:45 +0000

That statue is the best.

By: LiteraryMinded

LiteraryMinded — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:16:46 +0000

I love that story also – http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/reportforacademy.htm

Would have been wonderful as a monologue with the full costume.

Thank you for the recommendation. I will definitely add it to my list

By: indeterminacy

indeterminacy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 11:11:09 +0000

Your description of Prague is so vivid – especially the line “Ancient blackened churches rise out of the steel, gripping defiantly to tradition.” – you aboslutely must read “The Golem” by Gustav Meyrink – which is set in Old Prague, which doesn’t exist anymore.

My favorite Kafka story is “A Letter to an Academy” (My guess at the title) – I saw it presented as a monolog, by a German actor. He was in a full dress suit, but with the hairy face of an ape, speaking thoughtfully, reflectively, and pausing to play passages of Beethoven on the piano.