Kafkaesque

[Freakscene]

Kafkaesque [kafkə(r)ˈɛsk] adjective
1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.
2. Like the world Kafka invented; recognisable but unreal, precisely detailed and dreamlike

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“Fotografieren? Das ist wirklich ziemlich unheimlich*. Und Sie vergrößern sie auch!” / “Taking photographs? That’s really rather unsettling. And you enlarge them too!”
Kafka to Friedrich Thieberger

*Edit: this is one reason that Kafka is very difficult to translate. In this context for unheimlich, 'creepy' is too simple, 'uncanny' is probably closest but it sounds wrong, unsettling is ok but lacks the emphasis of strangeness. It is unheimlich, but what exactly that works out to in English is hard. And saying 'strangely unsettling' is closest, but then you've made one word into two and wrecked the cadence of the sentence. Kafka is Kafka.

 

[Out to Lunch]

 

[Richard G]

 

[Richard G]

 

[Richard G]

 

[boojum]

Kafkaesque [kafkə(r)ˈɛsk] adjective
1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.
2. Like the world Kafka invented; recognisable but unreal, precisely detailed and dreamlike

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“Fotografieren? Das ist wirklich ziemlich unheimlich. Und Sie vergrößern sie auch!” / “Taking photographs? That’s really rather unsettling. And you enlarge them too!”
Kafka to Friedrich Thieberger

Surreal, the unreal reality of a dream.

 

[p.giannakis]

 

[boojum]

Drag Night in Astoria some years back

A Person from the Spectrum of Personages by West Phalia, on Flickr​

 

[boojum]

Herceg-Novi in Montenegro. You tell me what is going on here.

You tell me what is going on here. It's the Balkans. by West Phalia, on Flickr​

 

[Joao]

 

[Joao]

Kafka meets R. Magritte

 

[boojum]

Kafkaesque [kafkə(r)ˈɛsk] adjective
1. characteristic or reminiscent of the oppressive or nightmarish qualities of Franz Kafka's fictional world.
2. Like the world Kafka invented; recognisable but unreal, precisely detailed and dreamlike

Post your Kafkaesque photos here.

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“Fotografieren? Das ist wirklich ziemlich unheimlich*. Und Sie vergrößern sie auch!” / “Taking photographs? That’s really rather unsettling. And you enlarge them too!”
Kafka to Friedrich Thieberger

*Edit: this is one reason that Kafka is very difficult to translate. In this context for unheimlich, 'creepy' is too simple, 'uncanny' is probably closest but it sounds wrong, unsettling is ok but lacks the emphasis of strangeness. It is unheimlich, but what exactly that works out to in English is hard. And saying 'strangely unsettling' is closest, but then you've made one word into two and wrecked the cadence of the sentence. Kafka is Kafka.

Thanks for initiating the thread. Kafka ist unmöglich auf Englisch. We can get close but never quite there. It is like what Oma said about gemütlich. You can say what it is not but can never quite what it is in English. You are lucky to have read him in the original.

 

[Richard G]

An underestimated film from the ‘90s Una Pura Formalita (A Pure Formality) had many Kafkaesque resonances. But my wife and I saw it exhausted after a long day. We returned home to our wonderful intelligent babysitter, with same name as our daughter. She was most interested to hear about the film and gently enlightened us about what it all meant. I sat back, relaxed. I then put a proposal to A. She should come in a fortnight and we’d pay her the same rate, but we’d mind the child and she should go to the cinema.

 

[Freakscene]

Kafka Band: The Trial | Kafka 2024

Kafka 2024 is a yearlong festival of exhibitions, concerts, discussions, theatre, film, readings and lectures.

kafka2024.de

 

[Brambling]

Thanks for initiating the thread. Kafka ist unmöglich auf Englisch. We can get close but never quite there. It is like what Oma said about gemütlich. You can say what it is not but can never quite what it is in English. You are lucky to have read him in the original.

Of course, mental images depend on vocabulary, words depend on language. Native speakers of different languages think differently - this has always been the case and will be the case.and this is wonderful.

 

[Yokosuka Mike]

Sony A7III camera
Voigtländer 50mm f1.5 Nokton Vintage Line Aspherical II SC VM lens
Yokohama, Japan​

 

[Brambling]

imaginary danger is always worse
ZORKIY 3M, J8, Agfa avifot 400 as 200, 2017

 

[p.giannakis]

 

[Rick Waldroup]

 

[Dogman]

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