Karolina Watroba

Nov 27, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Karolina Watroba |Barbara Heldt |Eric Naiman |Piotr Gwiazda

Thomas Mann’s modernist magnum opus The Magic Mountain, a landmark novel of ideas-cum-comedy of manners set in a Swiss tuberculosis sanatorium, was published on November 28, 1924. On the German literary scene that year, its publication dramatically overshadowed an event that had taken place six months earlier in another TB sanatorium: the death of Franz Kafka.

Oct 17, 2024 | telegraphindia.com | Karolina Watroba

What the book understands by Kafka’s life, then, is really his afterlife among his readers.

Jun 25, 2024 | thefederal.com | Karolina Watroba

But Franz was uninterested in the family business and, despite his prestigious law degree and an attractive new job as a civil servant in the field of accident insurance, by 1912 — when he wrote The Judgement — he had found neither personal fulfilment nor, he felt, his father’s acceptance. Hermann did not understand or approve of his son’s literary ambitions and their attendant emotional torment. A letter to his father By all accounts, Kafka’s father was brawny, coarse and domineering.

May 4, 2024 | theguardian.com | Karolina Watroba

Kafka has become such a cultural icon that even the most private, obscure, or fragmentary of his writings have reached huge audiences: diaries, letters, unpublished notes, mystifying aphorisms, or conversation slips he made while dying.