Кафка. Пишущий ради жизни

Frant͡s Kafka segodni͡a i͡avli͡aetsi͡a odnim iz samykh izvestnykh imen v istorii zapadnoĭ literatury. No kem on byl v nachale svoego puti, v Prage nachala proshlogo veka?'Net u meni͡a naklonnosteĭ k literature, i͡a prosto iz literatury sostoi͡u, i͡a ne chto inoe, kak literatura, i nichem inym bytʹ ne v sostoi͡anii', - pisal Frant͡s Kafka svoeĭ neveste Felit͡sii Bauėr. Pisatelʹstvo bylo ego sushchestvovaniem, kotoroe znachilo dli͡a nego bolʹshe, chem zakonchennoe proizvedenie.Izvestnyĭ filosof i biograf Ri͡udiger Safranski pokazyvaet, chto mozhet znachitʹ pisʹmo dli͡a zhizni, kak vse mozhet bytʹ emu podchineno, kakie terzanii͡a i momenty schastʹi͡a voznikai͡ut iz nego i kakie prozrenii͡a otkryvai͡utsi͡a na ėtoĭ ėkzistent͡sialʹnoĭ granit͡se.Safranski rasskazyvaet o momentakh schastʹi͡a, kotorye Kafka perezhivaet za svoim stolom, i o momentakh, kogda mir kazhetsi͡a emu sovershenno chuzhdym.

Franz Kafka is one of the most famous names in the history of Western literature today. But who was he at the beginning of his journey, in Prague at the beginning of the last century?'I have no penchant for literature, I just consist of literature, I am nothing but literature, and I cannot be anything else," Franz Kafka wrote to his fiancee Felicia Bauer. Writing was his existence, which meant more to him than the finished work.The famous philosopher and biographer Rudiger Safransky shows what writing can mean for life, how everything can be subordinated to it, what torments and moments of happiness arise from it and what insights open up on this existential border.Safransky talks about the moments of happiness that Kafka experiences at his desk, and about the moments when the world seems completely alien to him.