Hellevig

03.12.2006

Franz Kafka: "The Trial"

Franz Kafka: "The Castle"

Roberto Calasso: "K."

I am very much influenced by Franz Kafka. I consider that I have to a great extent interpreted the same feelings that Kafka wrote about. Kafka is timeless. Kafka can be read anytime by anybody. In the same way that we can look at a piece of art many times over again, we can also read Kafka’s book again and again. – As a good aid to understanding Kafka, and also as a book on its own right, I recommend Roberto Calasso’s book on Kafka: K.

For me the timeless symbolic language of Kafka expresses the same thoughts that I interpret in my book Expressions and Interpretations.

Kafka and the law (PDF file)

08.10.2006

"Putin's Russia"
by Anna Politkovskaya

My conclusion of reading the book is that the journalist was raised to unexpected heights by certain dark forces, who made use of her as a propaganda tool in order to fight the democratization and prosperity of the Russian middle class trying to build a new state. There was a time she served their needs as a living author, but then came the time when they saw her more useful as dead.

Anna Politkovskaya - Twilight_of_an_Idol (PDF file)