Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is a Czech tradition of satirizing mindless officialdom that goes back to Kafka's The Trial and Jaroslav Hasek's The Good Soldier Svejk. But this is not Kundera's main theme, and there is no reason to think that his work would be wholly different if his country's absentee landlords were still the Habsburgs, not the Soviets...
...KAFKA: THE WORLD OF PARABLE, is at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, which is the church right behind the Gulf station across the street from Lamont on Mass Ave. It's adaptations from Kafka, as you might expect...
...Kafka: The World of Parable. The Crimson gave it a good review, which I was sure was going to say the world of the play was so absurd it was Kafkaesque. When it didn't say that, I was so relieved I decided the review might be right, but that's not binding on you. If this is obsucre, calk it cup to exams. 8:30 at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
...KAFKA: THE WORLD OF PARABLE deserves all the audience it can get, according to The Crimson's review, and we all know how reliable those are, 8:30 at the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, 1151 Mass...
...Still, Kafka: The World of Parable deserves all the audience it can get. The performance is uneven, it tends to make Kafka a little too slap-stick, but Sanders and Timm pull it off on a shoestring. Because Sander's principle of organization suggests more stream of consciousness than structure, it opens up Kafka's dramatic possibilities. There are many ways in which the play could have been built. As it is, this production hints at all of them. But Sander's and the Ensemble's greatest accomplishment is that theirs is not just a reading but what it purports...