Word: brod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1910-1913 (345 pp.)-Edited by Max Brod-Schocken...
...trails of current literary fashions. F. O. Matthiessen's The James Family and The Notebooks of Henry James offered rich detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...
...this century's most remarkable writers, still almost unknown in the U.S., was the subject of a discerning biography by Max Brod...
Signal. In Los Angeles, Barbara Brod put a hand out of her car window to signal a left turn, attracted the attention of a gunman who jumped on the running board and relieved her of a $3,000 diamond ring...
...Brod recalls that when Kafka read to friends the opening chapters of The Trial (the story of a man crucified by inches), they laughed till the tears ran down their cheeks, and Kafka himself laughed so hard he could not go on reading. It is, says Novelist Thomas Mann solemnly, "very deep-rooted and involved" humor. Kafka's cosmic comedy of man's foredoomed failure in his quest for God is brought down to earth and up to the minute by the use (in The Trial and The Castle) of all the adventitious paraphernalia of 20th Century living...