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Prague - Kafka statue
The 12ft tall bronze sculpture--a walking headless figure with Franz Kafka sitting on the shoulders--was created by a Czech artist Jaroslav Rona. The sculpture was inspired by Kafka’s story “Description of a Struggle.”
The monument was erected in a tiny park between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the border of Prague’s Jewish district in a place that symbolizes the city’s religious and cultural diversity. “It’s an extraordinary unique day for both Franz Kafka and the capital, Prague,” Prague Mayor Pavel Bem told a crowd gathered to watch the unveiling ceremony, on December 4, 2003. “Today we redeem a debt we owe our history and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.”
The monument was erected by the Franz Kafka Society, which was founded shortly after the collapse of communism in 1989 to promote the legacy of Kafka and other Jewish and German writers from Prague.
Want to know more about the man? Check out this interesting article on Kafka.
Prague - Kafka statue
The 12ft tall bronze sculpture--a walking headless figure with Franz Kafka sitting on the shoulders--was created by a Czech artist Jaroslav Rona. The sculpture was inspired by Kafka’s story “Description of a Struggle.”
The monument was erected in a tiny park between the Spanish Synagogue and the Church of the Holy Spirit, on the border of Prague’s Jewish district in a place that symbolizes the city’s religious and cultural diversity. “It’s an extraordinary unique day for both Franz Kafka and the capital, Prague,” Prague Mayor Pavel Bem told a crowd gathered to watch the unveiling ceremony, on December 4, 2003. “Today we redeem a debt we owe our history and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.”
The monument was erected by the Franz Kafka Society, which was founded shortly after the collapse of communism in 1989 to promote the legacy of Kafka and other Jewish and German writers from Prague.
Want to know more about the man? Check out this interesting article on Kafka.