The city of Prague is anything but Kafkaesque but it is the home and setting for much of the writings of Franz Kafka and the concept of Kafkaesque. Kafka was not published during his lifetime and asked his best friends to burn all his writing after his death.... they didn’t and he is now considered an important 20th century literary force...how Kafkaesque is that? One of the houses Kafka lived in is shown on the bottom... and we wonder why he was a existentialist or wrote of strange things... Anyway the term 'Kafkaesque' and Kafka’s writings are full of events and situation that are senseless, disorienting, incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical, often menacing, having a surreal distortion and a sense of impending danger, ... which all of us can, of course, somehow relate to. Kind of like this 12 foot statue of Kafka being carried by an invisible person situated between a synagog and a catholic church... none of us that have read Kafka can remember such a scene in his writing yet somehow the statue just makes sense... how Kafkaesque is that?
Good way to try on tshirt b4 buying, er make that instead of buying, lol. Maybe I could write a novel about living in Cedar Shores condos and pass it off as a rare lost Kafka gem...
ReplyDeletedo you want the statue to be you carrying tom or should he be carrying you?
ReplyDeletebeen carried most of my life...
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