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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 1d

57. To express anything outside the world of the senses, language can only be used by way of hints and intimations, but never in a way approaching metaphorically, for, as it corresponds to the world of the senses, it deals only with possession and its associations. (Crick translation)

Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 6d

Nice excerpt. It is not just a Kafka nightmare turned into fiction; we are living in this world of Josef K.

Thenextpage @thenextpage.bsky.social · 8d

#TheTrial
#FranzKafka

What sort of men were they…What office did they represent? After all,K. lived in a state governed by law,there was universal peace,all statutes were in force…He'd always tended to take things lightly,to believe the worst only when it arrived,making no provision for the future…

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ronanmaenardø @ronanmaenardo.bsky.social · 13d

Photo en noir et blanc d’une femme manifestant et tenant une pancarte sur laquelle on lit : FRANZ KAFKA FOR PRESIDENT.

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 13d

I got the source:

Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 13d

The quote I asked about was:

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”

My asking for the source got blocked: Though widely attributed to Kafka, Chat can't find one.

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 14d

That makes sense for your group. Did Kafka say this in his interactions with Janouch? If so, it would be a similar context and make sense for him to say it. Those conversations were never intended for a general audience or any context.

Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 14d

I'm fascinated by this Kafka quote; but I would like to know the context of when he wrote this. That is important to me if I'm to interpret it as Kafka intended it.

What if a psychopathic murderer wrote it? Is it possible for one's "most intense obsessions ""to be evil yet true to one's "soul"?

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phoenixmcarthur @mmcarthur.bsky.social · 28d

Franz Kafka : The Thinker, 1913

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 25d

This is Kafka-Land as Judith Butler found out. Anyone can be arrested or fired from their jobs without any explanation of why. The Supreme Court just ok'ed this procedure.

#Kafka #FranzKafka

This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

Opinion | This Is the Feeling of Losing a Country. I Know It Well.

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wozinak.bsky.social @wozinak.bsky.social · 29d

Words of wisdom. #FranzKafka #QuoteOftheDay

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 29d

19 (September 1917)
It is the age of the wound more than its depth and overgrowth that makes it painful. To be torn open again and again in the same wound channel, to see the wound that has been operated on countless times taken under treatment again, this is what is awful.

#BookSky
#FranzKafka

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · 28d

Kafka Land

Kafka "The Trial"
Orwell "1984"
Trump "ICE" et. al.

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · Sep 13

Writer, Resistance Fighter, and Kafka’s First Translator: Milena Jesenská, Forgotten No More

Christine Estima on Breathing Fictional Life Into a Long-Overlooked Literary Figure

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Kafka at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #translators #literature

Milena Jesenská (1896 - 1944) - Czech journalist, writer and translator.

Milena Jesenská appears as a poised young woman with strong, well-defined features. Her face is oval with expressive dark eyes, a straight nose, and full lips. She often wears her dark hair in a short, modern bob. She is dressed quite simply.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1#/media/File:Milena_Jesensk%C3%A1.jpg

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Sep 17

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Dude @defeasance.bsky.social · Sep 15

"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."
- Franz Kafka

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Notes from Poland @notesfrompoland.bsky.social · Sep 15

"Franz", a biopic about author Franz Kafka by Polish director Agnieszka Holland, has been selected as Poland's entry for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.

"Franz Kafka" Agnieszki Holland polskim kandydatem do Oscara - TVN24

Polskim kandydatem do Oscara 2026 w kategorii najlepszy film międzynarodowy został

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · Sep 17

Franz Kafka’s Anxious Letters to His Fiancée, Read Aloud by Richard Ayoade

www.openculture.com/2025/08/fran...

Kafka:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_K...

Felice Bauer

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Books by Kafka at PG:

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Photograph of Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka

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𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑘 𝑎𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑎 ⋆˙⟡ @darkacademiah.bsky.social · Sep 16

— Franz Kafka

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caasbrey @caasbrey.bsky.social · Sep 14

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. Franz Kafka.

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · May 27

Is Franz Kafka autistic? What do you think?

I reading two articles by Stuger on the topic listed in my reply to Lezi below. This hypothesis is interesting but Stuger's evidence isn't aside from the incident fro a letter by Milena about Kafka in a post office unable to decide who gets a penny.

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𝔞𝔪𝔞𝔯𝔶 @amaryllis.no · May 2

Franz Kafka was definitely 100% autistic

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · May 26

Miniseries on Franz Kafka
#FranzKafka #Kafka

youtu.be/t6UKIqAgvi4?...

KAFKA Limited Series | Streaming June 6 (Official Trailer)

YouTube video by ChaiFlicks

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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · May 26

Truth is stranger than fiction in new miniseries based on the life of Franz Kafka www.timesofisrael.com/truth-is-str...
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Truth is stranger than fiction in new miniseries based on the life of Franz Kafka

In 'Kafka,' now streaming on ChaiFlicks, the Czech Jewish author's escapades and complex inner struggles are creatively portrayed through the eyes of those who loved him most

www.timesofisrael.com

Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · May 24

I seem to have lost my own posts on my feed.
#FranzKafka
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Talk about Franz Kafka @talkaboutkafka.bsky.social · May 23

Thanks. However, the concept of being masked has a rich history. Descartes, for example, employed the metaphor to suggest that he was concealing his intellectual pursuits from others in his public life as a gentleman soldier. Gotta go.

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