I dare say, if it’s a self-portrait, it may be one of the few projects he ever finished before he died. Although it’s also a funny idea of one of his themes of getting caught in the system and the hoplesness of it all. In fact, the very way you turned the stamp, or the Germans did, is a clever idea of buerocracy in action; to read it right-side up is to make the character upside down.
Cool. I didn’t know Germany could even claim him, as he wasn’t a German national (though he obviously wrote in German). The Abraham Lincoln of Europe?
— Ben Mar 16, 04:01 pm #he was planning to become a german citizen but after experiencing the ausländerbehörde….
— William Thirteen Mar 16, 07:46 pm #... he stayed in Prague and wrote The Trial?
I think the stamp shows a self-portrait from that period.
— Mike Mar 16, 10:35 pm #I dare say, if it’s a self-portrait, it may be one of the few projects he ever finished before he died. Although it’s also a funny idea of one of his themes of getting caught in the system and the hoplesness of it all. In fact, the very way you turned the stamp, or the Germans did, is a clever idea of buerocracy in action; to read it right-side up is to make the character upside down.
— e Mar 18, 12:01 am #