After watching The Amazing Race on Sunday where the racers had to go through a Kafkaesque bureaucracy because they were in Prague, this made me laugh. It made me laugh even more when you realize it's somewhat similar to travel today anyway. Prague's Franz Kafka International Named World's Most Alienating Airport

... Kafka's porn brought out of the closet   A stash of explicit pornography to which Franz Kafka subscribed has emerged for the first time after being studiously ignored by scholars anxious ... Ritchie Robertson, a professor of German at Oxford University and author of Kafka: A Very Short Introduction, said he was unaware of any academic actually looking at the pornography pictures, let alone ...

Title: The Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Publisher: Barnes and Noble Classics Genre: Fiction Paperback, 54 pages Date Published: 2003 Description (Taken from Amazon) One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he ...

The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Graphic adaptation by Peter Kuper. Published 2003 by Three Rivers Press. Paperback. Click here to ... and even most of the dialog has to come out in order for the graphic adaptation to be a readable length, but I think Peter Kuper hit it just right with his adaptation of Franz Kafka's classic The Metamorphosis, about the unfortunate Gregor Samsa, who awakens ...

... a film adaptation courtesy of Germany. Currently accruing funding, this short was said to have an ending but Kafka's lover destroyed it upon his death. While the amount of Kafka adaptations is quite large, there has been talk in the last year or two of updated versions of Metamorphasis and Amerika, they've unfortunately gone nowhere so I'm hoping this will ...

... this week about President Obama's Afghanistan speech on Tuesday, so I'm going to talk about something else. Funding for higher education in America. Presently, we have a system only Franz Kafka could love. It's a system that literally undermines the American Dream, which is the simple idea that people who work hard and play by the rules ...

'The Silence of the Sirens' - Franz Kafka(links to the article) A most remarkable encomium in honor of the power of human conviction.Beautiful. (And a Thank you to the Blackcurrantess - For helping me not miss the forest for the trees on this one - I owe you!) James Horner - A Kaleidoscope of Mathematics

In my humble opinion, Kafka's Das Schloss is the best embodiment the human condition in the age we call modern. Coming from a land, who is trying to come in terms with its modernization project, it has been a constant intellectual quest for me to understand what modernity exactly means, and why of all the places it started in Europe. The classical explanations put almost all the time Europe ...

... said before...if we are not under God, then we are under Satan...but never should we think we can operate independent and completely free agents in this world. "anything suggestive of Kafka, especially his nightmarish type of narration, in which characters lack a clear course of action, the ability to see beyond immediate events, and the possibility of escape." I am terrified as I ...

... Republic) Lessons in travel bureaucracy This week in Franz Kafka's home town, the cast ... simultaneously ringing telephones filling a room at the Kafka museum, to be filled in along with a panoply of other irrelevant personal ... reality, travel isn't usually this Kafkaesque, though it sometimes seems that way. Unlike in Kafka's stories or in this episode of the race, even bureaucrats ...