nice article on Kafka’s leading anglophone ambassadors of the 20th century, Edwin & Willa Muir.
(as late as 2001, i read numerous works of Kafka in the Muirs’ translations; those translations were hardly obsolete or superceded then…)
I'm 82, I'm going to die. We die because we are born. The only things that matter in life are food and love, in that order, and also our little dog Ruby. I truly believe this, and for me, the basis of art is love. I love life.
- David Hockney, Letter to Ruth Mackenzie