Who was Kafka?

00:00:05 I was raised in the city, in the middle of the city.

00:04:07 I felt better at the cemetary than in town

00:07:28 Behind the desk sat a tall, slim man.

00:10:57 It was about three weeks after my first encounter with Franz Kafka

00:13:50 and was too devoted to you

00:17:36 I recevied a sort of restrospective conformation

00:22:41 and I've rarely exhanged more that a greeting with my father.

00:27:10 by the time I was seated, I had made an unalterable judgment."

00:30:24 A story "extending into eternity," as he put it.

00:33:47 to save him

00:38:53 We were starving badly in Munich.

00:42:21 and executes the verdict against himself.

00:46:15 which would be a sign, not of love but of despair.

00:50:13 And this without the word "Jew" ever appearing in any of his texts.

00:55:19 and equally the greatest enemy, of his work.

00:58:47 psychologically, as a rescue from marriage so to speak.

01:02:34 young, beautiful

01:05:54 It alone can grant me some sort of survival

01:11:22 He was working with enthusiasm, though his physical condition had deteriorated.

01:14:59 He would speak little, eat without an appetite

01:20:50 Aterrible, fatal day.

01:25:37 might long ago been swept off into enernity.

01:31:39 and sensitive perspective of a man...

17:19:02 took Franz to Prague.