KAFKA AND PRAGUE
As Prague has not changed is the insistent manner in which claims to Kafka as an essential part of the city. Perhaps no city so marked by the imprint of Prague a writer, despite the fact that Kafka did not acclimated nothing specifically in Prague (although, of course, many of their descriptions have to Prague as a starting point.) Curious paradox, a place where your child just might post more important in life, he repressed his books in the decades of communism frost, and now sells them on postcards, T-shirts, posters, pins . What would you say about the man who wrote as little about the alienation of modern life?
any kiosk in the city can get a map of the Prague of Kafka. The truth, however, is that as there is no street, avenue, or neighborhood that does not refer to any way to the Czech writer, one can get to walk around town without a map and just one will run into a Kafkaesque historic landmark. I came by accident to the Tower Street in the Plaza Franz Kafka, number 5 / 27, where the writer was born in 1883.
on map can be selected certain places: the Street of the Alchemists, number 22 in the realms of Hradcany Castle, where Kafka wrote some of his most important stories (including "The Great Wall of China"); Na Poricz 7 / 1075, where he was the insurance company where he worked Kafka Chotek Park, a favorite of the writer; Male namesti 2 / 3, where Kafka lived during his childhood and where heading out to school; Pariszka 36/883, where Kafka lived in his youth and wrote "The Metamorphosis" Bilkova 10/868, where he wrote The process; Skorepa 1 / 27, house where he lived Max Brod and Kafka met Felice Bauer Strasnice cemetery where Kafka's grave. And of course, Kafka renovated museum, which is reached by crossing the bridge of San Carlos, towards Hradcany. Today there is mounted a sophisticated and cutting-edge facility that represents in detail the labyrinthine world, bureaucratic, prison, the writer died of tuberculosis in 1924.
Vodickova On the street, number 44, was the cabaret Lucerne, which Kafka used to go with Max Brod and other artists. In the early twentieth century, had come to Prague this new type of entertainment called "cabaret", the Lucerne offered performances of Czech and foreign artists of the moment. Degradation signs everywhere: what we now term "cabaret" in Prague is not what was meant in times of Kafka. What would the Czech writer to have the opportunity to see places like Darling or Atlas? Surely there would be no moral judgments here but yes, perhaps a great opportunity to turn a facet prosaic modern life in a great parable about the human condition.
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