Word: franz
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...Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself...
Your reviewer of Politzer's book, Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox [Dec. 21], mentions Kafka's closest friend and refers to his "good sense in preserving the records of a genius" by which "the generation that has passed since then has been deeply marked." Why keep anonymous this friend who has rendered such far-reaching service by his power of judgment and foresight, and who is indeed one of the most interesting figures in the history of contemporary literature? This friend is the author-philosopher Max Brod, who has also launched other writers on their way to fame...
...Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself...
Early this month. West German politicians were confident of three things: 1) that Chancellor Konrad Adenauer would resign next fall, 2) that he would be replaced by popular Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard. and 3) that ex-Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss was finished as a national figure because of his involvement in the Spiegel crisis...
...Franz Kafka died of tuberculosis in 1924, at the age of 41. In crippling distrust of himself, he had published almost nothing, and he died little noted, leaving instructions to burn all his work. His closest friend disobeyed his will and published Kafka's three unfinished novels, his letters, diaries, parables and tales. These included The Trial, The Castle and Amerika-in effect, the chief body of his work. The generation that has passed since then has been deeply marked by the friend's good sense in preserving these records of a genius that at first seemed obscure...