Zurau Aphorisms: Thank you.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Thank you.

This concludes Kafka's Zurau Aphorisms. I hope that you have found something of interest here, and that my commentary, if not profound, was at least not too irritating.

Thank you for your interest.

1 comment:

Alan Zhong said...: Thanks for the insight. There's nothing I enjoy from Kafka more than his aphorisms.; February 10, 2013 at 12:13 AM

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Kafka extracted these aphorisms himself, from journals he wrote between 1917 and 1919. The order and numbering are Kafka's. Eight of the aphorisms were written later, in 1920 or so, and do not occur in the original notebooks.

Kafka took up residence with his sister Ottla in Zurau, a small town in northern Bohemia, shortly after being diagnosed with tuberculosis in early September, 1917. It seems likely most of the aphorisms were composed at Zurau, even though some material does originate later.

By all accounts, this sojourn of eight months was the happiest period in Kafka's life.