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BOLD EXHIBIT PLUNGES VISITORS INTO FRANZ KAFKA'S PRAGUE DRAMATIC VIDEOS, ARTIFACTS EVOKE WRITER'S LIFE, ART

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021124
Author:Mark Feeney, Globe Staff

NEW YORK - It could be a literary parlor game, pairing great modernists and their cities: Joyce and Dublin, Proust and Paris, Musil and Vienna. Yet none of these carries quite the charge of Kafka and Prague. For each pair, there was a fundamental (and highly fruitful) tension between a sense of place and sense of exile. Kafka added a third element: a sense of confinement.

"Prague doesn't let go," he once wrote a friend. "This old crone has claws. One has to yield, or else."

This rich, fierce relationship inspires the Jewish Museum's "The City of K.: Franz Kafka and Prague." Organized by the ...

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