Word: kafkaã
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...book machine is well worth a look: It actually comprises two machines. One resembles an industrial-sized copier, and the other reminds me of that baroque execution device from Kafka??s “In the Penal Colony.” A transparent casing surrounds the latter half, affording a view of the various gears, clamps, trays, and rollers in action...
...there as a magical possibility. Growing up in Silicon Valley—where computer chips tend to garner far more excitement than “impractical” things like poetry—the idea of a place in which people gather round the ashtray Saturday nights to discuss Kafka??s lost manuscripts seemed incredible. Sure, that initial perception may have been laughably idealistic. And yet everything I watched, read, or heard about seemed to bolster it: Columbia-based Jewish literary criticism of the ’40s and ’50s, left-wing magazines like...
...book was about skiing. Are you accusing me of never reading this book? Why don’t you read it if you think you’re so smart. Fuck you. It’s also partly about her brother Josef K., the push-over attorney from Franz Kafka??s awesome novel, “The Trial.” Kafka??s original manuscript was loosely based on a German facsimile of a John Grisham novel called “Runaway Trial.” The lawyers go skiing occasionally, and it?...
...contrast, in “The Metamorphosis,” an adaptation of Kafka??s identically-titled 1916 short story, Auslander masters the tone of reverential parody...
Yale inadvertently provided the final nudge that set Pearl on his literary path. Pearl and several other students participated in a reading group dubbed “Literature and the Law,” which focused on a different subject each semester. These ranged from Kafka??s The Trial, to Joyce’s Ulysses, to Melville...
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