Sunday in the Footsteps of Franz Kafka












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            * Sunday in the Footsteps of Franz Kafka
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            Prague is s city of contrasts, with modernist buildings and centuries – old cobble streets

            corner tells stories of a past that is still present in the reflection of the windows, in 
            citizens. There are secrets and stories waiting to be told, there are people who remain ic
            transcending the barriers of time. Last week a group of curious Erasmus students decided t

            Sunday afternoon exploring the links between the city and a writer, enigmatic and full of 
            to the Erasmus Club of the Faculty of Arts, the activity called “The Walk in the Footsteps
            was a successful adventure.

            In the early afternoon of Sunday 27 of April, a group of students started to arrive on the
            station. The platform, unusually uncrowned, was the perfect run-up for the expected tour. 

            one afternoon to learn about the intricacies of a key icon in the Czech culture.
            Accompanied by the few rays of a hidden sun, the New Jewish Cemetery, a place with magical
            vegetation and silence, was the first stop. The graves told us about the history of the fa

            Kafka was born in 1883 and grew up with, a German-language writer of novels and short stor
            critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. In June 1924 the body 
            who passed away of tuberculosis, was turned over to the City Funeral Services of Community

            transferred to Prague. The stones, as symbols of respect and mourning, decorate the place 
            characters such as the architect Antonín Balšánek and the writer Ota Pavel also rest.
            In the middle of Wenceslas Square in Nové Město (New Town of Prague), the years have prese

            branch of the Italian insurance company Assicurazioni Generali. In spite of the current us
            as an international clothing brand shop, we can still imagine a young Kafka working betwee
            a place where he spent nearly a year really unhappy with the working time schedule that ma

            difficult to concentrate on writing.
            The tour continued between the labyrinthine main streets, full of tourists deaf to the bio
            Železná Street 9, Kafka was admitted to the German Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague 

            began to study Chemistry but switched to Law after two weeks. The House "Of Three Kings" (
            is another little unknown treasure in the middle of the Old Town, and the building was the
            the Kafka family moved into in September of 1896 and which was also the location of the pa

            Celetná Street, as full of stories as it was full of people at this time of spring, observ
            Kafka’s first love adventure.
            With mid-afternoon arriving, the “Walk in the Footsteps of Franz Kafka” continued towards 

            where Kafka’s high school and in the later years also his father’s shop were located. The 
            birth house, on northeast side of the Old Town Square with modest living conditions when P
            ghetto had still existed, gave us an idea of the reality of Franz Kafka’s early childhood.

            on the corner of the Old Town Square and Pařížská Street (Kafka’s family home from Novembe
            death) or the Kafka’s childhood home, House of the Minute (where the family lived 1889-189
            the last stops.

            Without doubt, there couldn’t be a better way to end the Franz Kafka tour than at the scul
            the talented man who wrote The Metamorphosis, The Trial or The Castle; words that still re
            streets of a city that keeps in mind the imagination, life, legends and contradictions of 

            writer. The statue is located in Dušní Street, just next to the Spanish Synagogue.
                                                                                                      
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