Citario Kafka
A constellation of phrases that encircle and explore the legacy of Franz Kafka.
Loose Pages
Franz Kafka
Essays
Kabbalah and Paradise
Kafka, Kabbalah, and communism reveal paradise as loss, impossible utopia, and permanent exile.
Essays
Kabbalah and Combinatorics
A quartz marked with aleph reveals Kabbalah as creative language, infinite combinatorics, and interpretive experience.
Essays
K: A Rare and Comical Dread
Kafka’s tragicomic irony as a literary invention, linked to Virgilio Piñera, Baudelaire, and modern European criticism.
Essays
The Doctor in Zürau
Suffering from tuberculosis, Kafka retired to Zürau, where he wrote his Aphorisms, an enigmatic work of metaphysical reflections.