Author: Franz Kakfa

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• Rusalka Reh (1)
  • IN: This Brave Balance (2011) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: His gaze fell upin the top story of the building adjoining the quarry. Like a light flicking on, the casements of a window flew open, a human figure, faint and insubstantial at that distance and height, leaned far out abruptly, and stretched both arms out even further. Who was it? A friend? A good person? Someone who cared? Someone who wanted to help? Was it just one person? Was it everyone? (...) He raised his hands and spread all his fingers.
    FROM: The Trial, (1925), Novel, Czech Republic
• Randa Jarrar (1)
  • IN: A Map of Home (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Sometimes I imagine the map of the world spread out and you stretched diagonally across it.
    FROM: Letter to his father, (1919), letter, Czechia/Austria
• Tom Robbins (1)
  • IN: Still Life with Woodpecker (1980) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: You don't need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don't even listen, simply wait. Don't even wait. Be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you. To be unmasked, it has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
    FROM: The Zürau Aphorisms, (1931), Book, Austria