Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spaethling's specialty is German literature of the 19th and 20th centuries last spring he taught a course on Bertolt Brecht, and he will teach a course on Brecht, Kafka, and Junger in this year's summer school...
...from a broken home, swiped $5 worth of candy from a roadside candy stand near Salem, N.Y. For that one act, the boy drew a ten-year burglary sentence-and was later buried alive for 34 years by an avalanche of injustice that matches the nightmare novels of Franz Kafka...
...Sinyavsky depicted the horrors of the Stalinist trials and the inner workings of Stalin's regime in one of his short stories, "The Trial Begins." Daniel's tale "Moscow Speaks" envisioned a day of legalized crime and violence throughout the country. Writing in a grotesquely symbolic style reminiscent of Kafka and Dostoyevsky, the two authors explored the psychological realities of their lives...
...what he called with desperate facetiousness his "last tooloose-Lowrytrek," he wrote a British friend: "I have, since being here, been in prison three times. Everywhere I go I am pursued and even now, as I write, no less than five policemen are watching me. This is the perfect Kafka situation but you will pardon me if I do not consider it any longer funny . . . There is a church here for those who are solitary and the comfort you obtain from it is non-existent though I have wept many times there . . . Incidentally I smell...
...system, had for more than six years eluded the Kremlin's wrath while smuggling out satiric manuscripts to be published abroad. These included The Trial Begins (1959), a savage study of Soviet life in the New Class, and Fantastic Stones (1962), a collection which Western critics compared with Kafka and Gogol. Was the man in the Lubianka really Abram Tertz? Western Kremlinologists found it hard to believe...