Kafka's Amerika
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2013
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Kafka had never visited America but used photographs from travel books as inspiration for his novel. Carolin Duttlinger explains how Kafka's very approach to writing was formed by his experience of photography.
credits:
Directed and edited by Richard West
Camera: Brian Morrison
Sound: Daniel Jewesbury
Title Sequence: David Haughey
Music: Smetena, String Quartet no.1 in E minor
recording: The Hollywood String Quartet (1955)
Film clips: excerpts from Manhatta (1921) directed by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand.
Excerpts from The Goat (1921) directed by and starring Buster Keaton.
The Kaiserpanorama in the Märkisches Museum, Berlin,
filmed by Guim Bonaventura i Bou and used with permission. www.gbib.cat
Photographs: Hotel Latham, New York (between 1905 - 1915) Detroit Photographic Company collection. 'Bell boys at the Hotel Martin' (1910) and 'Rolling cigarette cases in tenement home' (1912), Lewis Hine. Pitcher and bowl in hotel room, John Vachon. Actors on U.S.S. Maine (1896) Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress.
Kafka's obsession with description is a product of his (and Karl's) loneliness. Lack of intimate human contact makes one a keen observer.
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Amerika is Kafka's masterpiece and one of the greatest books of the last century, yet it remains completely unknown.... read this book!!
i mean it was good but i wouldnt go so far
i just finished this book, it was incredible
Thanks so much for this review and assessment. I am fascinated by the transition of images and photographic documents into words, prose and ideas.
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Very concise details. Thanks!
Das ist ein wunderbarer Vortrag einer sensitiven Leserin!
"Amerika" war für mich ein Meilenstein!
Very good review of "America". I just finished the book, in a Portuguese translation by Susana Kampff Lages. I enjoyed discovering with you the source of information that Kafka used: "Amerika heute und morgen". As it may be of use to others, I note here the author's name (which the automatic subtitles failed to capture): Arthur Holitscher. Kafka's detailed description of numerous scenes in the book even gives the reader the impression that he was writing a movie script. Style explained: he was using photos as his sources. I loved this review! It's great for a start!
do you recommend it?
Très intéressant mais on pourrait croire qu'il s'agit, ici, d'un roman classique, or, je n'avais jamais lu une oeuvre de génie si déconcertante.
Robinson and Delamarch were with him before he became a liftboy? He left them to go sleep in the hotel, where he started working as a lift boy
It is sad that you cannot find a review of this book in the czech language..
Yes but very interesting too regarding speculating about the reason. Kafka's work as banned in Czechoslovakia for so long.
But heczechs I job always refer to him as a German writer. He did of course write in German. But he has never really been, notwithstanding the tourist industry crashing in on him in Prague, embraced as a Czech writer.
The prophet it seems was not easily accepted in his own land.
Nicely done Video.
Just one thing I would like to mention. As far as I know Kafka talked to Max Brod about Karl meeting his Parents back again in Oklahama to intend a nice Ending. On the other side he wrote in his diary that he planed to let Karl die in the end. Or did i tumbled there something.
But aside from this point I really do like what you made here.
+Lyonely LP Thanks for your comment. I'll mention it to Carolin.
I'm a bit curious because my copy of Amerika begins with "The Stoker". Are there different compilations available?
Yes. Kafka never finished the novel nor titled it. Kafka often referred to this manuscript as his "American Novel" but it has been published as "America", "Amerika" and, as you stated, "The Stoker".
FRCVIDS thats chapter 1.
your eyes are very pretty
I'm curious about the narrator. Who is she?
Hi Henry, She's Carolin Duttlinger, Associate Professor in German at Oxford University and a Kafka specialist. She wrote a book Kafka and Photography.
@@SourcePhotoFilms And Oxford Introduction to Franz Kafka.
0.01. i have not read this yet and i am agog. and agario.
You look like Mrs. Cook :)