Kafka Expert Lectures At Elizabethtown College
ELIZABETHTOWN, PA (10/06/2011)(readMedia)-- As part of the celebration of Elizabethtown College's new president, the Office of the Provost and Senior Vice President is sponsoring a two-year series of lectures by distinguished full professors who are actively engaged in scholarship.
The first in the series "Smoke and Mirrors: Translating the Uncanny Imaginings of Franz Kafka," with Dr. Mark Harman, professor of English and German at Elizabethtown, takes place at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 11, in Hoover 212. A reception follows.
Drawing on his experience translating Franz Kafka's novels, "The Castle" and "Amerika: The Missing Person," Harman will discuss fresh insights he has gained into Kafka's art, while also exploring some of the challenges Kafka presents for his translators, as well as for his readers.
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