Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...PENAL COLONY (320 pp.)-Franz Kafka-Schocken...
...DIARIES OF FRANZ KAFKA, 1914-1923 (343 pp.)-Schocken...
With this sentence, Franz Kafka begins The Metamorphosis, a novelette filled with the Czech author's own terrified and terrifying sense of life. Gregor Samsa, a timid, unsuccessful salesman slaving for his family feels rejected and unwanted. At the end, he hears his sister say of his insect-self, "We must try to get rid of it." The Metamorphosis appears, with 43 other Kafka stories and "short pieces," in The Penal Colony, a collection recently published in the U.S. Like the more famous novels, The Trial and The Castle (TIME, April 28, 1947), all the stories are marked with...
...Trial, Author Franz Kafka tells of the ordeal of an accused man who is never told the charges on which he is being tried. For the past 8½ months, many U.S. businessmen have felt somewhat the same. The U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the basing-point method of setting prices in cement (TIME, May 10) had been so vague that many businessmen were not sure what was and what wasn't legal. Last week, in answer to six questions from the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York, the Federal Trade Commission took most...
Francis L. Kafka of Leverett House and Great Neck, N.Y.; Harvard Dramatics Club '46-47; Harvard Radio Network '47; Entertainment Committee of PBH; Varsity Cross Country '47; Varsity Track '48; Chairman Leverett House Dance Committee...