Word: kafka
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Character's protagonist, a young man named Katadreuffe (Fedja van Huet), lives in emotional country bordered on one side by Kafka, on the other by Dickens, or, if you insist on being literal, in dank, gloomy Rotterdam in the 1920s. He is the product of a one-night liaison between a chilly, brutal man named Dreverhaven (Jan Decleir) and his stony housekeeper (Betty Schuurman), sex that one suspects was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for both of them. He keeps asking her to marry him, she keeps refusing him, and he takes his frustration...
...will not be pleasantly surprised. To protect himself and the process, he'll be grilled, chased and pretty much treated like another Joseph, in Kafka's The Trial (original German title: Der Prozess). But don't let the pedigree fool you. The Spanish Prisoner is exemplary entertainment. Come expecting a dour jeremiad on man's corruptibility--or even a slice-of-lice drama like Mamet's American Buffalo or Glengarry Glen Ross--and you'll be pleasantly surprised. The villains in The Spanish Prisoner (like the war-games con men in Mamet's Wag the Dog script) dress well, speak...
...menacing, seemingly omnipotent PROD would fit well in a book called 1997, but Felix's perplexing predicament owes as much to Kafka as to Orwell. Frustrated by the impenetrable conspiracy enmeshing him, Felix frantically threatens Gavin, his only link to the mysterious world of Mirry and PROD. Unfortunately, when a dead and mangled body surfaces in Gavin's car, Felix's wild threats make him the prime suspect in the murder investigation...
...doing nothing to prevent the players' deaths, she argues, Roulleau is no less culpable than a bystander who doesn't warn an oblivious pedestrian in the path of a train. This premise sets Groundlings rolling, and the rest of the one-act play is devoted to Roulleau's Kafka-esque trial. The ensuing action alternates between the troupe's re-enactment of Hamlet's murders, which the prosecution displays in the form of a plaintiff's exhibit, and Roulleau's desperate defense...
Foreign Cultures 23a and 23b, (two semesters to meet one requirement,) cover readings from Wagner, Nietzsche, Kafka, Einstein and Freud. Moral Reasoning 22: "Justice," includes Kant and Locke...