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Kafka in the Blue Hour
(Picture: H.-P. Haack)
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When Franz Kafka recalled, in his diary (23 September), the process of writing his story Das Urteil (›The Judgment‹), during the night of 22/23 September 1912, he recalled also his noticing, while working (or pausing), of a turning blue outside his window (»Wie es vor dem Fenster blau wurde.«).
(Picture: franzkafka.de)
This must refer to a Blue Hour of Prague (either in the evening of 22 or in the morning of 23 September).
And Kafka, at that time, lived at Čechův most, one of the Prague bridges, in Niklasstrasse 36, top floor, with his family (see picture on the left).
This Blue Hour of Prague, by the way, – or shall we say?: this Blue Hour of Franz Kafka, probably while finishing the story, while writing the last paragraphs – has, as it does appear, not become part of the story Das Urteil. While the arriving of a servant (»Dienstmädchen«) of the Kafka family in a way has. Nevertheless this Blue Hour might be associated with the writing of that story, and the cover of the 1916 single edition does, in some sense, recall or echo that turning blue outside the window.
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