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The odd-numbered chapters tell the 15-year-old Kafka's story as he runs away from his father's house to escape an Oedipal curse and to embark upon a quest to find his mother and sister. [3] After a series of adventures, he finds shelter in a quiet, private library in Takamatsu , run by the distant and aloof Miss Saeki and the intelligent and ...
Little Woods is set in Little Woods, North Dakota, and tells the story of two estranged sisters after their mother's death. At the Tribeca Film Festival, the movie won the Nora Ephron Prize ...
Saeki (written: 佐伯, 冴木 or サエキ in katakana) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Anna Saeki ( 冴木 杏奈 ) , Japanese singer
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Felice Bauer and Franz Kafka. Felice met Franz Kafka in Prague on 13 August 1912, when he visited his friend Max Brod and his wife. [3] Brod's sister Sophie was married to a cousin of Felice's; Felice was in Prague on a trip to Budapest to visit her sister Else. [1] A week after the meeting, on 20 August, Kafka entered in his diary: Miss FB.
Franz Kafka wrote "The Judgment" ("Das Urteil") at the age of 29. At this point in his life, Kafka had finished his studies of law at the Karl-Ferdinands-Universität of Prague five years earlier and had worked at various jobs, including working for an insurance company and starting an asbestos factory with his brother-in-law, Karl Hermann.
Milena Jesenská. Milena Jesenská (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlɛna ˈjɛsɛnskaː]; 10 August 1896 – 17 May 1944) was a Czech journalist, writer, editor and translator. She is noted for her correspondence with the author Franz Kafka and was one of the first to translate his work from the German language.
Dora Diamant (Dwojra Diament, also Dymant) (c. 1900 – 1952) [1] [a] [b] is best remembered as the lover of the writer Franz Kafka and the person who kept some of his last writings in her possession until they were confiscated by the Gestapo in 1933.