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Mar.22.2013
Josef K, the protagonist of Franz Kafka's The Trial was 30-year-old when he was arrested. My professor, who taught us the novel as part of the course “the Existentialist Novel” in the mid-1970s, told us that Kafka probably chose this age because 30 symbolized stability and respectability. “...
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Mar.02.2013
Not bad for a fellow who was tone deaf and cared little for music. I doubt the singing voice would fare any better for Kafka. However, he had a deep interest in theatre. Perhaps he would garner some appreciation for the words (most of which are his own). The text in this article is a first...
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Dec.16.2012
And a nifty-sounding adaptation it is. It is a movie consisting of live-action pantomime, puppets and stop-motion animation. Actually it sounds just right for The Metamorphosis, where the human protagonist awakes one morning as a giant vermin. That demands puppets to me. And there will...
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Nov.30.2012
To think that I have lived long enough for this. And yet (I dare say) Kafka himself is just as glad he is dead before this occurred. But then, he was tone deaf, so maybe it would not have bothered him.
Not that I can go across country for the event, but I do like the premise. Centring around...
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Nov.28.2012
Mind you, I'm not so sure that The Messiah is quite as thoughtful as Kafka, but that's splitting vermin.
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Kafka's search for lost time
One hundred years after Franz Kafka penned his seminal work, "The Metamorphosis," about literature's most famous insect, his...
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Nov.12.2012
Is there too much Kafka in the world? No! Non! Nein! And now this 1997 TV movie interpretation from Austria is available for worldwide consumption. Lookin' good, I tell ya.
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The Castle
By Ben Nicholson • ...
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Nov.03.2012
That word being "Kafkaesque".
There are some facts in this fine article which I did not know (I do enjoy 'nuts and bolts') of how Kafka's works managed to get published. And there is also this astute insight:
Warburg concluded his chapter on Kafka by asking, "What quality existed in Kafka's work...
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Oct.30.2012
This mystery/police procedural novel by Swedish writer Leif GW Persson is another example of how many things from Sweden--from Volvos to Ingmar Bergman to meatballs--can be very good. It lacks the striking characterizations of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but it’s a...
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Oct.23.2012
Let's see if any living author could do this. After decades of having work by Kafka hidden in Israeli vaults, they are destined to come to light. Now, an adaptation of one of Kafka's stories - The Penal Colony - is being performed in Cairo. Sure, maybe it's coincidence, but I think Kafka stirs up...
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Oct.21.2012
Yes - yes yes yes - I said I should / might/ maybe/ refrain from more coverage about Kafka's lost manuscripts being made available. But there is such a nugget in this report - a story I had never read before about Kafka, that I can but relay it.
Oh ... the story at the end about Brod and Kafka and...
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