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Kafka (other)
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) was a German-language writer from Prague. Kafka may also refer to: * Kafka (surname) * ''Kafka'' (film), a 1991 film by Steven Soderbergh * Franz Kafka Prize, also referred as Kafka Prize * Franz Kafka Society, a non-profit organisation established in 1990 to celebrate the heritage of German Language literature in Prague * 3412 Kafka, an asteroid * Apache Kafka, an open source Apache Software Foundation project that variously supports message brokering and data storage * Anti-fascist research group Kafka, a Dutch anti-fascist and far-left research group * Kafka, a character in ''Amphetamine'' * Kafka Tamura, main character in ''Kafka on the Shore'' by Haruki Murakami * Kafka Hibino, main character in the manga '' Kaiju No. 8'' by Naoya Matsumoto * '' Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature'', a 1975 book by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari See also * Margit Kaffka Margit Kaffka (10 June 1880 – 1 December 1918) was a Hungarian writer and poet. Called a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels ''The Trial'' and '' The Castle''. The term ''Kafkaesque'' has entered English to describe absurd situations, like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafka (surname)
Kafka is a Czech surname, which is an old spelling of the word "kavka", that means ''jackdaw'' in Czech, or occasionally a given name from a Yiddish diminutive for Ya'akov. Notable people with the surname include: * Alexandre Kafka (1917–2007), Czech-Brazilian international economist * Bohumil Kafka (1878–1942), Czech sculptor and pedagogue * Bruno Kafka (1881–1931), Czech politician and academic * Franz Kafka (1883–1924), Czech German-language writer * Gustav Kafka (1883–1953), Austrian philosopher and psychologist * Helene Kafka (1894–1943), Bohemian-Austrian nun, surgical nurse * Jakub Kafka (born 1976), Czech footballer * Maria Restituta Kafka (1894-1943), Czech-Austrian Catholic religious sister and martyr * Martin Kafka (born 1947), American psychiatrist * Mike Kafka (born 1987), American football player * Ottla Kafka (1892–1943), sister of Franz Kafka * Styliani ("Stella") Kafka (born 1974), Greek-American astronomer, former executive director of the Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafka (film)
''Kafka'' is a 1991 mystery thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh. Ostensibly a biopic, based on the life of Franz Kafka, the film blurs the lines between fact and Kafka's fiction (most notably '' The Castle'' and ''The Trial''), creating a Kafkaesque atmosphere. It was written by Lem Dobbs, and stars Jeremy Irons in the title role, with Theresa Russell, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé, Joel Grey, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Alec Guinness. It was partially filmed on location in Prague. Released after Soderbergh's critically acclaimed debut ''Sex, Lies, and Videotape'' it was the first of what would be a series of low-budget box-office disappointments. It has since become a cult film, being compared to Terry Gilliam's ''Brazil'' and David Cronenberg's ''Naked Lunch''. Plot Set in the city of Prague in 1919, ''Kafka'' tells the tale of an insurance clerk who gets involved with an underground group after one of his co-workers is murdered. The underground group, responsible for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka Prize
The Franz Kafka Prize is an international literary award presented in honour of Franz Kafka, the Jewish, Bohemian, German-language novelist. The prize was first awarded in 2001 and is co-sponsored by the Franz Kafka Society and the city of Prague, Czech Republic. Award information and history At a presentation held annually in the Old Town Hall (Prague), the recipient receives $10,000, a diploma, and a bronze statuette. Each award is often called the "Kafka Prize" or "Kafka Award". The award earned some prestige in the mid 2000s by foreshadowing the Nobel Prize when two of its winners went on to win the Nobel Prize in Literature the same year, Elfriede Jelinek (2004) and Harold Pinter (2005). The criteria for winning the award include the artwork's "humanistic character and contribution to cultural, national, language icand religious tolerance, its existential, timeless character, its generally human validity and its ability to hand over ica testimony about our times." A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka Society
The Franz Kafka Society is a non-profit organisation established in 1990 to celebrate the heritage of German Language literature in Prague. The society is co-sponsor the annual Franz Kafka Prize. Membership currently stands at around 1000 people globally, including Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass and the acting president of the society is Vladimír Železný. Among the stated goals of the organisation is to foster cultural pluarity among the Czech, German and Jewish people of Central Europe. It also aims to translate the entire work of Franz Kafka into Czech. The Franz Kafka Society initiated the creation of the '' Statue of Franz Kafka'', created by Jaroslav Róna Jaroslav Róna (born 27 April 1957 in Prague-Letná) is a Czech-Jewish sculptor, painter, actor, educator, and writer. Works *Franz Kafka - bronze statue on Dušní Street ( Holy Spirit Street), historic Jewish Quarter, Prague; inspired by the .... The statue was presented in the Czech capital of Prague in 2003 whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3412 Kafka
3412 Kafka, provisional designation , is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 6 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 10 January 1983, by American astronomers Randolph Kirk and Donald Rudy at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named after writer Franz Kafka. Orbit and classification ''Kafka'' orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 2.0–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 4 months (1,212 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.10 and an inclination of 3 ° with respect to the ecliptic. It was first identified as at the Finnish Turku Observatory in 1942, extending the body's observation arc by 41 years prior to its official discovery observation at Palomar. Physical characteristics According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, ''Kafka'' measures 6.1 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.231 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is a distributed event store and stream-processing platform. It is an open-source system developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Java and Scala. The project aims to provide a unified, high-throughput, low-latency platform for handling real-time data feeds. Kafka can connect to external systems (for data import/export) via Kafka Connect, and provides the Kafka Streams libraries for stream processing applications. Kafka uses a binary TCP-based protocol that is optimized for efficiency and relies on a "message set" abstraction that naturally groups messages together to reduce the overhead of the network roundtrip. This "leads to larger network packets, larger sequential disk operations, contiguous memory blocks ..which allows Kafka to turn a bursty stream of random message writes into linear writes." History Kafka was originally developed at LinkedIn, and was subsequently open sourced in early 2011. Jay Kreps, Neha Narkhede and Jun Rao helped co-create ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anti-fascist Research Group Kafka
Anti-fascist research group Kafka is a Dutch Anti-fascism, anti-fascist and Far-left politics, far-left research group. Its name is originally an acronym for ''Kollektief Anti-Fascistisch/-Kapitalistisch Archief'' ( en, Collective Anti-Fascist/Anti-capitalism, -Capitalist Archive). Background The research group finds its origins in the Squatting in the Netherlands, squatters' movement. It conducts research into groups and individuals in the Netherlands whom it considers to be Far-right politics, far-right, and the developments related to them. The results are published on Kafka's website and in the quarterly magazine ''Alert!'' of the left-wing activist group Post–World War II anti-fascism#Netherlands, Anti-Fascist Action (AFA). Kafka is funded by donations, rather than direct Subsidy, subsidies. Jaap van Beek is one of Kafka's spokespersons. Groups investigated include New Right (Netherlands), New Right, the w:nl:Nederlands Zuid-Afrikaanse Werkgemeenschap, Nederlands Zuid-Afrika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amphetamine (film)
''Amphetamine'' () is a 2010 Hong Kong film starring Byron Pang and Thomas Price. It revolves around the story of an ethnic Chinese fitness trainer, Kafka, who meets Daniel, a business executive. The film is directed by acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It was nominated for a Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival of 2010. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the third of seven publicly released films by Scud. The six other films are: '' City Without Baseball'' in 2008, ''Permanent Residence'' in 2009, '' Love Actually... Sucks!'' in 2011, ''Voyage'' in 2013, '' Utopians'' in 2015 and ''Thirty Years of Adonis'' in 2017. The eighth film, ''Apostles'', was made in 2022, as was the ninth, ''Bodyshop'', but neither have yet been released. The tenth and f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kafka On The Shore
is a 2002 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Its 2005 English translation was among "The 10 Best Books of 2005" from ''The New York Times'' and received the World Fantasy Award for 2006. The book tells the stories of the young Kafka Tamura, a bookish 15-year-old boy who runs away from his Oedipal curse, and Satoru Nakata, an old, disabled man with the uncanny ability to talk to cats. The book incorporates themes of music as a communicative conduit, metaphysics, dreams, fate, the subconscious. After the release of the book, Murakami allowed for questions about the novel to be sent in, and responded to many of them. The novel was generally well-received, with positive reviews from John Updike and the ''New York Times''. Title The title of the book, according to Alan Cheuse of NPR, is suggestive and mysterious to Japanese readers - Franz Kafka is categorized as a Western writer who is well-known by Americans but is not so in Japan. He compares it to titles such as ''Tale of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiju No
is a Japanese media genre that focuses on stories involving giant monsters. The word ''kaiju'' can also refer to the giant monsters themselves, which are usually depicted attacking major cities and battling either the military or other monsters. The ''kaiju'' genre is a subgenre of ''tokusatsu'' entertainment. The 1954 film ''Godzilla'' is commonly regarded as the first ''kaiju'' film. ''Kaiju'' characters are often somewhat metaphorical in nature; Godzilla, for example, serves as a metaphor for nuclear weapons, reflecting the fears of post-war Japan following the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the '' Lucky Dragon 5'' incident. Other notable examples of ''kaiju'' characters include Rodan, Mothra, King Ghidorah and Gamera. Etymology The Japanese word ''kaijū'' originally referred to monsters and creatures from ancient Japanese legends; it earlier appeared in the Chinese ''Classic of Mountains and Seas''. After ''sakoku'' had ended and Japan was opened to for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toward A Minor Literature
Toward; ( gd, Tollard) is a village near Dunoon, Scotland, at the southern tip of the Cowal peninsula. During the Second World War, the Toward area was a training centre called HMS Brontosaurus also known as the No 2 Combined Training Centre (CTC), based at Castle Toward. Castle Toward Nearby is Castle Toward, a former country house built close to the ruined Toward Castle. Castle Toward was used as an outdoor education centre. The grounds were also used as a location for the children's BBC TV series ''Raven''. Sold by Argyll and Bute Council to a private individual in 2016. Toward Point Lighthouse Toward Point has one of the eighteen lighthouses built by Robert Stevenson. Highland Boundary Fault The Highland Boundary Fault passes Toward, as it crosses Scotland from Isle of Arran The Isle of Arran (; sco, Isle o Arran; gd, Eilean Arainn) or simply Arran is an island off the west coast of Scotland. It is the largest island in the Firth of Clyde and the sevent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
