Kafka conference in Liblice to be hold again after 45 years

An international conference on the Prague-born, German-speaking writer Franz Kafka will take place in Liblice, outside Prague, in October. The event will be held at the same venue as the historic Kafka conference which was held in 1963. The conference re-discovered Kafka’s work and paved the way for the Prague Spring of 1968. The theme of this year’s conference will be Kafka and Power; scholars will examine to what extent Kafka’s texts themselves go against repression and to what extent they helped spark opposition to the totalitarian regime.