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Czechoslovak Party Boss Gustav Husák could hardly have been more emphatic. In response to a question by a visiting French Communist about reprisals against onetime followers of ousted Reformer Alexander Dubček, Husák declared: "There is and will be no trial and no arrest for political activities in 1968 and 1969, and there is and will be no trial or arrest for opinions held. Socialist legality will be scrupulously respected...
...Kafka of Gustav Janouch's Conversations with Kafka is much different, and to a surprising extent, separate from his writings. In his postscript, Janouch claims that he has been much too close to Kafka to bring himself to read the novels and diaries. The Kafka he knew was closer to the Kafka who worked eight or ten hours a day in the Workman's Accident Insurance Association in Prague than to the one who returned to his parent's home at night to write. It is not that Janouch knew only the superficial side of the man, for Kafka speaks...
MEETINGS of this pattern are repeated again and again, and if the effect is sometimes artificial, the figure of the writer which emerges is a rich and full one seen through the particular filter of an intense young poet in Prague in the early twenties. Gustav Janouch's father worked with Kafka at the Insurance Association and asked him to advise the son on his poetry. The resulting introduction, in March of 1920, led to several years of close friendship and to the manuscript which became the Conversations. The jottings which Janouch assembled were first published in 1951 with...
With the immediacy and fondness of personal experience. Conversations with Kafka conveys one man's image of Franz Kafka in terms that are indisputably real. While reading about him adds new significance to the writings, the Kafka Gustav Janouch knew would be important if he had never written a word...
...positions within the frame that are composed and lighted like 17th century Dutch paintings. The actors rarely look at one another. They inhabit rooms simplified down to a minimum of objects that suggest the milieu of the action and represent the ideas of the film. When Gertrud explains to Gustav that she is leaving him, she is sitting in front of a bas-relief of a woman. Set behind Gustav is the portrait of a man, and the two art objects are separated by bare wall and an archway...