All the World’s a Cage - Franz Kafka’s fictional entrapments ...
Nov 30, 2020 · The critic who cannot proceed directly to Kafka—who must pass through the maze of mythologizations in biographies, monographs, and apologies-cum-articles—mirrors his characters’ futile movements. If his work teaches anything, it is that we must try to demonstrate our innocence to implacable judges, despite or perhaps because of the ...
Oct 16, 2012 @ 12:22:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
Oct 16, 2012 · The young Franz Kafka. A suitcase full of tens of thousands of previously unpublished documents by Franz Kafka might soon be made public, thanks to a recent ruling by a Tel Aviv judge. The papers—which include Kafka’s notebooks and letters—have been under dispute since the death of their final owner in 2007.
Life Goes On by Hans Keilson - Bookforum Magazine
Dec 11, 2012 · Comedy, a darkly humorous tale that earned Keilson comparisons to Franz Kafka, is about a Dutch couple who hide a Jew in their house, only to have him die under their roof, causing all sorts of problems (namely, how do they dispose of the body without the Nazis discovering they were hiding it). Death, on the other hand, is an even stranger ...
Jul 22, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
Jul 22, 2010 · Franz Kafka. The Trial: On Monday a delegation of important-looking men representing powerful bureaucracies pried open safe-deposit boxes in Tel Aviv containing a trove of mysterious writings, while an heir laying claim to the boxes shouted, "It's mine, it's mine."
Nov 6, 2012 @ 12:21:00 am - Bookforum Magazine
Nov 6, 2012 · Franz Kafka and Max Brod, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, Syliva Plath and Ted Hughes: Flavorwire rounds up ...
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer - Steven G. Kellman
Like Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and Margaret Atwood, Foer extends his empathy to nonhuman beings. “For the animals,” wrote Isaac Bashevis Singer, another literary vegetarian, “it is an eternal Treblinka.”
Talking books with Judy Blume and Lena Dunham; reading …
Jan 16, 2014 · Susan Bernovsky’s new translation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, with an introduction by filmmaker David Cronenberg, is now available. Bookforum contributor Andrew Hultkrans writes: “In our present era, marked by a ferment of genetic engineering and hybridization (not to mention isolation and economic hardship), revisiting this text ...
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Leppin, immediately recognizable in his large hats and loud ties, captivated listeners, among them Max Brod and Franz Kafka, with readings from his fiction and poetry at the Café Arco. Unfortunately, however, he could not tear himself away from Prague.
R. Crumb gives visual form to the first book of the Bible - Jeet …
Since the early ’80s, he has been releasing a remarkable series of literary adaptations, faithfully and lovingly based on scenes from works such as James Boswell’s London Journal, Richard von Krafft-Ebing’s Psychopathia Sexualis, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Nausea, and Franz Kafka’s stories. These are all works of literary extremism, focused ...