KAFKA | KAFKA
May.23.2013
Kafka is open - God knows - to interpretation. Here are a series of cartoons which are currently being exhibited in Cairo. Jiri Sliva has adapted some of Kafka's work visually - and why not?Kafka himself adorned his manuscripts with many cartoon drawings - literally often just stick figures. Kafka...
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May.09.2013
I do fit into this category (looks across desk of things which were to be tackled last week). And Leonard Cohen has most recently written about himself that he is "... a lazy bastard, living in a suit."
So, let the procrastination continue. [DE]
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May.04.2013
Here are two reviews about a new book about Kafka, Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt by Pulitzer Prize winning historian, Saul Friedlander. I try not to judge a book by its cover, and I won't review a book which I have not (yet) read. Friedlander's credentials make me accept that this will...
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May.02.2013
Yes, I finally had to make this allusion regarding the stage adaptation of Kafka's A Report To An Academy. And why not do it for my home country?
This adaptation of Kafka's short story, now entitled Kafka's Monkey, has been a hit in both London and New York. This is its Canadian premier. [DE]...
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Apr.28.2013
Absurd - of course not. As is proved time and again, year after year, Kafka's works - and his world view - are adapted with aplomb to stage and musical. Generally it is his two major works, The Trial and Metamorphosis, which make the transition.
This production of...
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Apr.15.2013
Patrick Süssind's novel, Perfume, carries with it the scent of Nietzsche at his most grandiose and perverse, Kafka at his most self-amused, Dostoevsky at his most morally contradictory and insightful, and even a bit of Flaubert in the sense that Perfume is relentlessly economical as it...
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Apr.09.2013
If what goes around comes around, then performing an adaptation of Kafka's The Trial in a former INS building will leave the muses spinning. This small theatre occupies the space where people once swore their citizenship allegiance. It is also beneath the cells where those of questionable...
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Apr.06.2013
Has a Kafka trend erupted across the theatres of the world? Are we awaiting a Second Koming? All this plus a musical adaptation currently take place, from New York to London (twice). Kafka adaptations of various sorts. Imaginative! Yes, it must be Kafka. [DE]
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Apr.04.2013
Some folk say that Kafka is always a little off. [DE]
Rubber-limbed physicality ... Kathryn Hunter. Photograph: Tristram Kenton
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2009/mar/20/kafka-monkey-theatre-review
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Kafka's Monkey
Place:Off Broadway
Venue:Baryshnikov...
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Apr.02.2013
Well, maybe not exactly a musical, but Kafka put to any type of song and musical production is - if I may coin a phrase - Kafkaesque. More so when the fact is taken into consideration that Kafka himself was tone deaf. Perhaps he would have appreciated not being able to appreciate himself. [DE]...
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