Word: kafka
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everything on anyone who has ever applied for a loan) and Cole's Metropolitan Householders Directory ($200, but it lists telephones by address and is crucial in tracing an erring husband's surreptitious calls). There is no evidence that Blye has read any Kafka, but if he did, he would probably want to call up the guy and chat. He loves red tape. Lew Archer is never seen writing depositions, but Blye must take them to exacting specifications from any credible witness. Every line of testimony from a witness is numbered, then read back to the speaker...
...FRANZ KAFKA...
...dark, silent, timeless, a room that could have been anywhere or nowhere, a setting out of Kafka...
...which grubby fact and mythological fantasy mingled into what can loosely be called magic realism. His new novel is a more circumscribed, grimmer and more obscure work. Its setting-mainly the presidential palace of a nameless South American country-shows a little less Faulkner and a little more Kafka. The Castle, with a high temperature-humidity index, comes to mind...
...Bericht Fuer Eine Akadeimie, a special presentation of Kafka's Report to an Academy starring actors from the Hessisches Staats Theater in Weisbaden, Germany, is being performed on Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 8 p.m. at the Laurie Theater at Brandeis. If you couldn't read the first part of this listing, don't bother to go, unless you want to follow the English version of the play, which will be available free at the door...