Saturday 21 September

12:20

Sickly, hypochondriacal and died at the age of forty as a result of tuberculosis, Kafka’s obsession with a healthy lifestyle and his distrust of traditional medicine is not so well-known. As a child, he swam, practised naturopathy in various European sanatoriums, and fervently followed the Müller method: fifteen minutes of daily gymnastics naked in front of a window. The grandson of a kosher butcher, he chose to become a vegetarian and followed a diet based on repeatedly chewing every single bite that irritated his dreaded father at the family dinner table. He was also an avowed anti-vaccine, and only at the end of his life did he agree to seek medical advice. In a new collaborative work with Naukas in its 2024 edition, Juan Ignacio Pérez, Head of the Chair of Scientific Culture at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, will talk about Kafka’s unique relationship with the medicine of his time, setting it in the context of the era.

Free entry until full capacity. In collaboration with NAUKAS (from 12.20 to 12.40h) 

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