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Apr.27.2012
I have been informed, more than once, that my novel about Kafka, where I 'replace' his missing diaries, should have some contemporary outer shell. As if there was a scholar or reporter who tracked down these diaries, and then published them. I think that is confusing and clutter.
However, real life...
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Apr.24.2012
It is possible that too much attention is paid to the relationship of Kafka with his father. I doubt it would be such a pronounced item of interest if Kafka had not written his rather infamous Letter To His Father. To me, it is just as telling that Kafka guaranteed that his father would never...
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Apr.21.2012
Not - perhaps - in person, but their spirits and their craft get twinned at the Kafka/Borges Biennale. Switching years between Prague and Buenos Aires, the literary festival presents present day artistic works from both Argentina and The Czech Republic.
Kafka and Borges have had immeasurable...
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Apr.16.2012
Philip Glass wrote this interpretation of Kafka's "In The Penal Colony" in 2000 so, taking this many years to finally reach Australia, seems a leisurely world cruise. The stark horror and perverse turn-about of Kafka's short story encourages a stark performance on an operatic stage. With certain...
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Apr.12.2012
This is just too much fun not to share.
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Interior Ministry hopes to rent out ‘top secret’ bunker
The bunker would make a cool facility (in both senses) — and certainly be a secure site — but is the ministry’s asking price too high?
by Brian Kenety...
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Apr.11.2012
I am not sure why a number of adaptions of Kafka's Letter To My Father have been appearing of late. Is there something in the air concerning the problems of getting along with ones father? Or ones parents? Certainly, this travail is nothing new. And as I oft point out, Kafka's benighted father was...
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Apr.07.2012
Alice Herz-Sommer has had a remarkable life and, at 108, might squeeze out a few more years. Of course I am interested in anyone alive who actually conversed with Kafka, but her life and accomplishments are astounding.
Alice Herz-Sommer (photo Polly Hancock)
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"Herz-...
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Apr.04.2012
Let's face it, I just like the phrase Bohemian coffeehouse and, to be informed that Kafka "... spent many a wild night..." in them, cheers me up to no end. As, I am sure, it did Kafka himself. Coffee!! However, as long as this particular Coffee House, Café Montmartre, is being...
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Apr.03.2012
It seems as if Kafka, in numerous forms, travels around to the stages of the world. I wonder if his books precede him, or follow in his wake.
'Venue Cymru'
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The Trial comes to Venue Cymru in Llandudno
BERKSHIRE-BASED Blackeyed Theatre Company brings Steven...
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Mar.28.2012
Saying that Kafka wrote "flash" fiction does seem to stretch the definitions of the genre. He indeed wrote short pieces, but the completion of a story within 1000 words would not have been his intent. I have met the author who arguably invented the genre of "Post Card Stories" in Canada, and I have...
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