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...York liberal intellectuals. Saul Bellow's The Victim, for the most part a well-controlled blend of realism and parable, was the year's most intelligent study of the Jew in U.S. society. Bellow's method recalled-without aping-that of the Czech genius, Franz Kafka...
...part of an issue that has an obligation to tackle its chosen problem with greater scrutiny and directness. The two plays lack, any sort of individualism or vigor and, contrary to Signature's editorial, show no trends at all. One is an uninspired adaptation of a part of Kafka's "The Trial," while the other, in spite of some interesting devices, has no characters worth reading about and a trite situation without any real resolution. The one story is almost completely offensive in its adolescence and pretentiousness; its title is "The Uprooted," all the characters are writers, and the scene...
...JOHN KAFKA...
Bergel's talk tonight will analyze the relationships among Cervantes, Hegel, and Kafka. A widely-known literary critic and chairman of the German department at Queens, Bergel is a specialist in the relations between contemporary German and traditional European literary figures...
André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...