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...course, Simon McBurney had to try. His London-based Complicite theater group teamed up last year with Tokyo's Setagaya Public Theatre to tackle Murakami. ("Japan's Kafka," McBurney calls him.) The result, The Elephant Vanishes, has played to packed houses and rave reviews in Tokyo, New York and London. It opened at MC93 Bobigny in suburban Paris earlier this month, and it will soon move to the Power Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
...LETTERS NOTEBOOK MILESTONES APPRECIATION: Julia Child ESSAY: Keillor on Kafka...
...Zedginidze’s case sounds like something out of Kafka, with an innocent protagonist nonetheless enduring punishment under a supposedly fair system, the reverse has just as frequently occurred. Convicted sex offenders have routinely received punishments less severe than expulsion from the Ad Board and the Faculty. The most severe case, when admitted rapist D. Drew Douglas was “required to withdraw” by the Ad Board, elicited such widespread campus outrage in 1999 that a meeting of the full Faculty dismissed him outright by a wide margin. Yet this is the exception to the rule...
...SIGNS OF THE TIMES The Trial Of Bureaucracy In the land of Kafka, one small village is fighting back against ubiquitous, omnipotent bureaucracy. Provoked by a steep rise in paperwork in recent years, the Bohemian hamlet of Jindrichovice pod Smrkem (pop. 630) has declared itself out of bounds to all uninvited employees of the Czech central government and its various subsidiaries. Signs at entrances to the village and its train station depict the crossed-out pictogram of a civil servant...
...matter ends up in the Constitutional Court.) That's not the mayor's only problem, either. Two government departments have launched fresh audits on Jindrichovice: one into its 2001 finances, the other into its compliance with health-insurance guidelines over the past nine years. That's a twist Kafka would have loved. - By Jan Stojaspal...