Poetry Cafe 190: Kafka

Playlist (texts read & music played)

1. Franz Kafka: ‘The Trees’
2. Kafka in his diary, Sept 23 1912
3. ‘The Metamorphosis’ (start)
4. Stephen Spender on Kafka’s work (1935)
5. Edward Sackville-West on ‘The Trial’ (1937)
6. Kafka in letters to Milena, April – June 1920
7. Leos Janacek: String Quartet no. 2 (‘Intimate Letters’), 1st & 2nd movements
8. Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor for organ & strings
9. Extract from ‘Vor dem Gesetz’/ ‘Before the Law’
10. Extract from the end of ‘The Trial’
11. Leos Janacek: Sinfonietta (1st movement)
12. Extracts from ‘Das Schloss’ (Ch. 1 & Ch. 3)
13. Franz Schubert: Der Leiermann (from Die Winterreise)
14. Gustav Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen