Aphorisms
Author: Franz Kafka
Date: 2015-01-02 05:00:00+00:00
Keywords: Philosophy; Classics; Non Fiction
Description: The aphorism eludes definition: it can appear to be a random jotting or a more polished observation. Whether arbitrary fragment or crystalline shard, an aphorism captures the inception of a thought. Franz Kafka composed aphorisms during two periods in his life. A series of 109 was written between September 1917 and April 1918, in Zürau, West Bohemia, while Kafka was on a visit to his sister Ottla, hoping for a brief respite following the diagnosis of the tuberculosis virus that would eventually claim his life. They were originally published in 1931, seven years after his death by his friend an
Publisher: Schocken Books

Document Outline

- Contents
- Marginalia
- The Zurau Aphorisms
- Veiled Splendor
- Sources