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KAFKA'S EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING KAFKA, FRANZ. 1883-1924. Autograph Note Signed ('Franz...
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KAFKA'S EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING KAFKA, FRANZ. 1883-1924. Autograph Note Signed ('Franz Kafka'), in German, 2 lines in a liber amicorum. Prague, 20 November 1897, ''Es gibt ein Kommen und ein Gehn Ein Scheiden und oft kein – Wiedersehn' Prag den 20. November. Franz Kafka.' [English translation:] ''There is a coming and a going A parting and often no – reunion' Prague, November 20th [1897] Franz Kafka' 131 x 84 mm. 20 leaves (12 blank), Kafka's entry on page 6. Contemporary red blind stamped cloth. Provenance: Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975) Kafka's closest friend in high school, philosopher, first rector of Hebrew University and founder of Israel's National Library; by descent to the current owner. THE EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING BY THE 14-YEAR-OLD FRANZ KAFKA, already a 'Kafkaesque' sentiment, inscribed in the liber amicorum of his closest friend Hugo Bergmann. It was in Bergmann's house 'when Kafka announced, that he was going to be a writer' and Hugo Bergmann's liber amicorum 'preserves Kafka's earliest surviving literary effort, in his own handwriting' (Pawel). Franz Kafka is one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, and the English term Kafkaesque describes absurd bureaucracy, oppressive and nightmarish situations found in his novels. Hugo Bergmann, like Kafka born and raised in Prague took his 'book of friends' with him when he immigrated to Palestine in 1920. Bergmann was an influential member of the Jewish community both in Prague and in Israel. Together with Martin Buber he founded Brit Shalon, an organization that sought peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel. On his 90th birthday Bergmann reflects on the meaning of Kafka's aphorism and offers an interpretation. 'When Kafka wrote these words at Barmitzvah age, did Kafka have in mind the deep meaning that we attach to his words today? - I don't know... we can probably interpret these lines as a warning to his generation' (Bergmann, Tagebücher und Briefe, volume 2, Königstein, 1985 p. 698). See Ernst Pawel The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka New York, 1992 p. 67. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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KAFKA'S EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING KAFKA, FRANZ. 1883-1924. Autograph Note Signed ('Franz Kafka'), in German, 2 lines in a liber amicorum. Prague, 20 November 1897, ''Es gibt ein Kommen und ein Gehn Ein Scheiden und oft kein – Wiedersehn' Prag den 20. November. Franz Kafka.' [English translation:] ''There is a coming and a going A parting and often no – reunion' Prague, November 20th [1897] Franz Kafka' 131 x 84 mm. 20 leaves (12 blank), Kafka's entry on page 6. Contemporary red blind stamped cloth. Provenance: Hugo Bergmann (1883-1975) Kafka's closest friend in high school, philosopher, first rector of Hebrew University and founder of Israel's National Library; by descent to the current owner. THE EARLIEST EXTANT PIECE OF WRITING BY THE 14-YEAR-OLD FRANZ KAFKA, already a 'Kafkaesque' sentiment, inscribed in the liber amicorum of his closest friend Hugo Bergmann. It was in Bergmann's house 'when Kafka announced, that he was going to be a writer' and Hugo Bergmann's liber amicorum 'preserves Kafka's earliest surviving literary effort, in his own handwriting' (Pawel). Franz Kafka is one of the most influential authors of the 20th century, and the English term Kafkaesque describes absurd bureaucracy, oppressive and nightmarish situations found in his novels. Hugo Bergmann, like Kafka born and raised in Prague took his 'book of friends' with him when he immigrated to Palestine in 1920. Bergmann was an influential member of the Jewish community both in Prague and in Israel. Together with Martin Buber he founded Brit Shalon, an organization that sought peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Israel. On his 90th birthday Bergmann reflects on the meaning of Kafka's aphorism and offers an interpretation. 'When Kafka wrote these words at Barmitzvah age, did Kafka have in mind the deep meaning that we attach to his words today? - I don't know... we can probably interpret these lines as a warning to his generation' (Bergmann, Tagebücher und Briefe, volume 2, Königstein, 1985 p. 698). See Ernst Pawel The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka New York, 1992 p. 67. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing
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