‘Kafka’s Wound’: Re-imagining the Literary Essay for the Digital Age
- Author: Will Self
- Senior editor: Christian Lorentzen
- Project lead: Nicholas Spice
- Project manager: Helen Jeffrey
- Project second: Rachael Beale
- Digital development: Rachael Beale, Ben Campbell, Jeremy Harris, Chris Sowden
- The Space mentor: Ian Potts
- Digital archive researcher: Oliver Brock
- Prototype development: Dean Claydon, We Create Digital; Vanja Garaj, Brunel University
- Administrative support: Aniko Dobos
- Promotion: Jill Tytherleigh
‘A Country Doctor’ by Franz Kafka
Translations from the German:
- A P Watt on behalf of Michael Hofmann
- Ian Johnston, Vancouver Island University
Audio and video performances:
- ‘Ein Landarzt’ read by Johannes Birringer
- ‘A Country Doctor’ read by Will Self; directed, filmed and produced by Ian Potts
Archive Material Courtesy of:
- BBC
- Bodleian Library, The University of Oxford
- Faber & Faber/The Willa Muir Estate
- Footage Farm
- Imperial War Museum
- John Banville
- London Review of Books
- National Centre for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, USA
- Royal College of Surgeons of England, Hunterian Museum Photography
- Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
- Wellcome Library, London
Creative Digital Responses to Kafka’s Story from Members of Brunel University
A Country Doctor
- Joni-Rae Carrack
- Carlo Ghidini
- Alexandre Menexiadis
- Mary Richards
- Simon Richards
- Nina Salomons
- Sam Stolton
- Josh Trotter
- Emily Westlake
An Open Wound
- Sean Gaston
Banner Videos
- ‘Wound’: Vanja Garaj, Akram Khan, Kamil Kurylonek, Peter Wiegold, Jayne Wilton
- ‘Berlin – Prague’: Camille Baker, Vanja Garaj, Kamil Kurylonek, Liba Taylor
- ‘Write-up’: Vanja Garaj, Kamil Kurylonek
- ‘Digital Essay’: Vanja Garaj, Kamil Kurylonek
Edith’s Eyes, Kafka’s Wound: Country Doctors in D.W. Griffith and Franz Kafka
- William Leahy
I came into the world with a beautiful wound
- Akram Khan
- Peter Wiegold
- Jayne Wilton
- notes inégales, featuring Max Baillie on violin
Jayne Wilton’s work on this project was made possible by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust
Kafka Machinima
- Olinkha Gustafson-Pearce
- Amica Laran Lane
Klesmer Music
- Composer: Peter Wiegold
- Performance: notes inégales (Max Baillie, Jon Banks, Joel Bell, Martin Butler, Simon Limbrick, Tim Lines, Ben Markland, Peter Wiegold)
Living in his wound
- Klaus Behringer
- Johannes Birringer
- Luca Forcucci
- Carlo Ghidini
- Aggeliki Margeti
- Panos Papafragkos
- Graeme Shaw
- Wagner re-mix: RU-IN
- Thanks to: Michèle Danjoux, the choreographic experiment ”Lung Pulmo Pneumo”
- Archival film “Parsifal” (1995): Johannes Birringer, Imma Sarries-Zgonc, Wolfgang Bosse Konstell, Erika Bosse, Volker Lenkeit, Richard Mansfeld, Rainer Müller, Jo Siamon Salich
Rose
- Broderick Chow
- Carlo Ghidini
- Alex Menexiadis
- Panos Papafragkos
- Tom Wells
The Game of the Wound
- David Bessell
- Douglas Brown
- Tracy Cogsdill
- Chris Cox
- Freek Groeneveld
- Tanya Krzywinska
- Justin Parsler
- Haley Uyrus
The Streets of Prague
- Pavlina Blahova
Thanks also to Paul Moody and Craig Aburrow for their creative input
Wounds: A Digital Autopsy of a Literary Wound
- Johannes Birringer
- Broderick Chow
- Carlo Ghidini
- Alexandre Menexiadis
- Paul Moody
- Panagiotis Papafragkos
- Mary Richards
- Will Self
Special thanks to: Angeliki Margeti and Alexandros Papathanasiou
Documentary Films and Audio Made During the Project
Interview with Akram Khan
- Akram Khan
- Will Self
Interview with Nicholas Penny
- Nicholas Penny
- Will Self
Scenes from Will Self’s Kafka Journey
- Will Self
- Directed, filmed and edited by: Ian Potts
Translating Kafka
- Anthea Bell
- Joyce Crick
- Amanda Hopkinson
- Karen Seago
- Will Self
- Produced by: Ian Potts
- Edited by: Derek Smith
Will Self’s Kafka Journey
- Will Self
- Liba Taylor
- Directed, filmed and edited by: Ian Potts
- National Centre for Jewish Film, Brandeis University, USA
- New World Encyclopedia Commons
- Wikimedia Commons
Writing Kafka’s Wound
- Will Self
- Nicholas Spice
- Produced by: Margot Broderick