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...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...soon as the curtain is up (there is no overture), it is clear that Peter Grimes, although he has committed no crime, is as doomed as a character in a Kafka novel. The opera opens with Peter facing an inquest-indeed a trial-in the village hall. He has just returned from a fishing voyage with his boy apprentice dead. The inquest absolves him, but with sinister warnings that it had better not happen again, and the townspeople gossip about him. Peter rages: "Charges that no court has made will be shouted at my head . . . let me stand trial. Bring...
...published a letter from another John Kafka on behalf of bears and criticizing humans [TIME, Nov. 24]. I wish to disassociate myself from this letter, which has embarrassed...
...JOHN KAFKA...
Many critical books followed the trails of current literary fashions. F. O. Matthiessen's The James Family and The Notebooks of Henry James offered rich detail on a man who in the past three years has increasingly been regarded as America's greatest novelist. Franz Kafka was brought to life in Max Brod's biography and scalped in Paul Goodman's Franz Kafka: His Prayer. By comparison, Edmund Blunden's solid Shelley: A Life Story seemed a challenge to current taste...