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Special K.: Jewish Museum's 'Kafka and Prague' exhibition presents the writer's work as a kind of sound and light show

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From: The New York Jewish Week
Date: 20020816
Author:Anonymous

Franz Kafka displayed theatrical flair from an early age, composing plays for his three younger sisters to perform. Cabarets and other popular entertainment fascinated him as a young man, and Kafka was especially influenced by the Yiddish theater, an emerging art form in prewar Prague -- where he spent most of his short life.

A new exhibition about the author of such dramatic fiction as "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis" fittingly presents Kafka's life and works as a kind of sound and light show.

Visitors to "City of K.: Kafka and Prague," currently on view at The Jewish Museum, wend their ...

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