Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first number Twice A Year published 34 pages of moderately pithy pontification by Alfred Stieglitz; a gustier and guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...
...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...
...sailor and lumberjack. Aksel Sandemose is a 39-year-old Danish novelist who has been acclaimed and anathematized in much the same terms as James Joyce, Celine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franz Kafka. Like them, he follows a realism that is epic and allegorical rather than photographic. Two years ago Sandemose was introduced to U. S. readers with a powerful, puzzling story called A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks. Acknowledging Sandemose's originality, critics called him less original than Joyce, less obscure than Kafka and Rilke, less cynical than Celine...
...WILD GOOSE CHASE-Rex Warner -Knopf ($2.75). A lengthy, parabolic fantasy about three brothers who go into a far country to chase the symbolic Wile Geese. English Author Warner admires the mystical novels of Franz Kafka. Publisher Knopf believes that this book is perhaps another Gulliver's Travels. Hard boiled readers will find it like the curate...