The Blue Octavo Notebooks by Franz Kafka 🇨🇿 Aphorisms, Parables, Microfiction, and Fragments

A discussion with numerous readings from Kafka’s Blue Octavo Notebooks, composed between 1917-1919.

0:00 Introduction
6:01 Kafka on Paradise
11:34 Contrast to the Diaries & Letters
12:49 Kafka on Life & Death
16:03 Recommended if you like

Recommended if you like:
Diaries of Franz Kafka
Stories of Kafka, my discussion on The Metamorphosis:    • The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 🇨🇿 🪳...  
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Pensees by Blaise Pascal
Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector
The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
The Book of my Life by Girolamo Cardano
The Dhammapada
The Analects of Confucius
Proverbs and Ecclesiastes in the Hebrew Bible
Sayings of the Desert Fathers
The Writings of Elias Canetti
Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion on his exploration of Gnosticism:    • Gnosticism in Borges: Secret Knowledg...  
Zibaldone by Giacomo Leopardi
The Tragedy of Man by Madách Imre

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