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Kafka in Love
Kafka was an attractive, slender, and elegant man--something of a dandy, who captivated his friends and knew how to charm women. He seemed to have had four important love affairs: Felice, Julie, Milena, and Dora. All of them lived far away, in Berlin or Vienna, and perhaps that's one of the reasons that he loved them: he chose long-distance relationships so he could have t...more
Paperback, 288 pages
Published
November 13th 2012
by Other Press
(first published March 2nd 2011)
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As a perpetual writer of love-letters, sent and unsent, and one with a tendency to love the unattainable, I began this text expecting complicity. Kafka is fierce, intense, unrealistic, overwhelming. There's something about reading true love affairs that feels hopeful and desperate, voyeuristic and human all at once. It just makes me wonder how this insecure, unsettling, manic state is one so widely accepted and encouraged-- perhaps the DSM V should have "in love" as a diagnosis. Still, the fire...more
I have long found Kafka and his writing of interest and have visited the Kafka museum in Prague three times. I therefore knew he had a number of different women in his life over the years and that he had fairly volatile relationships with all of them.
What I enjoyed about this book was the real human quality it brought to those relationships through quotes from letters. It really showed the impact those women had at different times in his life and the way that, and his ill health, affected his wr...more
What I enjoyed about this book was the real human quality it brought to those relationships through quotes from letters. It really showed the impact those women had at different times in his life and the way that, and his ill health, affected his wr...more
In the early part of the twentieth century, Franz Kafka was exploring what it means to be in love. He was living with his family in Prague and began a series of long distance relationships with four women. He proposed to all of them, but never once married. Kafka in Love is comprised of lengthy quotes from letters he wrote to his lovers and friends and a third person narrative of Kafka’s life during that time. Kafka is riddled by anxiety, idealism, and a compulsion to write, which all keep him f...more
Un texte assez barbant et inutile sauf peut-être pour les thésards sur Kafka dont la Muse s'en allée voir ailleurs...
May 14, 2013
Megan
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Micki Levin
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molotifcocktail
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