Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Among those who never received its accolade: Kafka, Tolstoy, Brecht, Chekhov, Conrad, Joyce, Twain...
...Kafka country? No, contemporary Africa, where injustice and revenge are concrete forces, not metaphors for alienated modern man. The book is set in a village hovering on the brink of civilization, and the topsy-turvy quality of its life is caught so expertly by the author that terrifying and absurd events come to seem fully logical. Studding the story are keenly observed individual portraits, among them a witch doctor frantically clinging to a waning authority and a self-important chieftain who | wears European khakis under his tribal robes...
Many in the tradition-bred Met audiences were pleased, some were piqued or puzzled, few were bored. In fact, last week when the Hamburgers also presented the first American performance of Gunther Schuller's Kafka-inspired, twelve-tone opera The Visitation (TIME, Oct. 21), a minority of listeners leaped to their feet with truly Italian fervor to boo, hiss and shout "Fraud!", while a noisy majority clapped and cheered...
...overseen since their childhood. Her charges pack up to resume their wandering, and try to take the Gramophone with them. When the old man protests, they gun him down like an animal and resume their aimless journey. Director Jan Schmidt has given Ozone the spare style of a Kafka fable, abetted by Poničanová's tragic portrait of a woman who seems to be lifted directly from a Kollwitz engraving...
Supernatural Fables. Two Tales is the one book among the three translations that should prompt U.S. readers to endorse the Nobel committee's judgment. Symbolic and supernatural fables, masterpieces of the form, they help to explain why Agnon has been compared to Kafka. In Betrothed, the heroine Susan suddenly appears before the hero, a young scientist on the threshold of a brilliant career, to remind him of the vows of fidelity they had sworn as children. Susan is the past: alluring, insistent; and the compulsion she represents is as enduring as mankind's yearning for its departed youth...