Located next to the Spanish Synagogue in the Jewish quarter, this interesting metal statue by sculptor Jaroslav Rona is one of the most peculiar ones I see often. Apparently, the statue is based on a vivid description that appears in Franz Kafka’s early short story “Description of a Struggle.” Kafka wrote of a young man riding on another man’s shoulders through the streets of Prague. In Rona’s work, that figure is Kafka himself sitting astride a headless man.
