Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...
Although F. Kafka '49 was the first runner to cross the finish line outside Nowell Boat House, his corrected time of 22 minutes, 58 seconds gave him only sixteenth place. Jack Cogan, the former Melrose High School speedboy, Paul Friedrich, Bill Baker, and Charley Worth all starting from scratch, had the best times in that order. They are all Varsity...
...Franz Kafka. 5. Paul Verlaine...
...sympathetic narrative about a boy from the Azores who likes to watch the Atlantic planes come in, and dreams of going to America, "Technical Landing," by Ivan Morris, may convey shades of Kafka to some, but as a character study the story stands well by itself. Perhaps the fact that the planes only come in when they're in trouble and the suggestion that the boy hasn't the ghost of a chance of going to America have divine implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur...
...minor nightmares, too, Kafka invented a variety of dramatic images. Sometimes (Investigations of a Dog), the victim of murder by mortality is a dog. Sometimes (Metamorphosis), he is a man who has been bestialized into a gigantic beetle. Sometimes (The Burrow), he is a little, nameless, furred animal, burrowing or scuttling in terror under the earth...