A literary walk through Kafka’s Prague on the trail of his story Description of a Struggle

The walk follows the path depicted in Kafka's 1904-1910 work Description of a Struggle. We will follow the two main characters of this story (the narrator and his acquaintance) on a journey through snowy Prague, which begins at an unspecified time on Národní třída, continues through Smetanovo nábřeží, Charles Bridge and Mala Strana, and ends at Petřín. Petřín is also the place where the final scene of Kafka's Trial takes place, which is why it will also be mentioned.

The walk (which will be supplemented by a return from Petřín, which Kafka no longer describes) will also portray well-known Prague landmarks in a contemporary light, not only in relation to Kafka but also to other important Prague literati (be they German, such as Max Brod, Ota Filip, Jaroslav Hašek, Egon Erwin Kisch, Milan Kundera, Paul Leppin, Reiner Maria Rilke, Jaroslav Seifert, Johannes Urzidil, Franz Werfel and others…