The Prague Circle

[LasseHolst]

Hi,

I'm a big fan of Franz Kafka. Has anybody read some literature written by authors who lived at the same time, at the same place at Kafka? I also think about literature from the so called Prague Circle.. In my research I found names such as Franz Werfel, Max Brod, Felix Weltsch, Egon Erwin Kisch, Gustav Meyrink, Paul Leppin, Leo Perutz, Hugo Salus, (Lenka Reinerová), and ofcause Rilke.. Can you recommend anything?

[stlukesguild]

Robert Walser's short fictions are often compared with Kafka (He was Swiss/German). Rilke is the German/Austrian poetic giant from around the time of Kafka. His "essential" books include The Book of Images, New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Uncollected Poems all translated by Edward Snow. Then there's Georg Trakl, the Austrian Expressionist poet. Check also Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud, Hermann Broch... and even though he was outside of Austro-HUngary, I'd also look into the Expressionist, Frank Wedekind.

[LasseHolst]

Robert Walser's short fictions are often compared with Kafka (He was Swiss/German). Rilke is the German/Austrian poetic giant from around the time of Kafka. His "essential" books include The Book of Images, New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and Uncollected Poems all translated by Edward Snow. Then there's Georg Trakl, the Austrian Expressionist poet. Check also Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, Robert Musil, Gustav Meyrink's The Golem, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Sigmund Freud, Hermann Broch... and even though he was outside of Austro-HUngary, I'd also look into the Expressionist, Frank Wedekind.

Thank you, very much. Lots of stuff there to check out!