Word: kafka
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...coming out for months. Even when I have no reason to believe that anything new is coming out at all. And it doesn't really matter if they're dead--as sick as it is, I never leave a bookstore without checking to see if there's any new Kafka available...
Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Emeritus, Henry C. Hatfield '33, who was known for his critical studies of such authors as Thomas Mann and Franz Kafka, died Tuesday at Youville Hospital in Cambridge...
...found some pleasant surprises on my recent excursions to the Web. Since may, the Cheesenet site has added some new recipes, the Franz Kafka Homepage has been overhauled, and the Sleep Homepage has been expanded. I even found a new Timewasters page...
...scenes that burlesque Kafka, Drake prosecutes himself before a New York City judge. But let's not quibble about jurisdiction. The Blood Countess offers stylish entertainment that starts on Page One when, "despondent over the irremediable passage of time, angered at the betrayal of her flesh," Bathory has all the mirrors in her castle destroyed. For an encore, she encases a beautiful young girl in ice. Subsequent victims are burned, pierced, torn, or licked into convulsions by a dwarf...
...deeply sympathetic to the activists' position, I admire their tenacious protests, consciousness-raising and even fasting. Yet I would like to call them to a take perhaps a less confrontational political position and a more radical philosophical justification of their enterprise. As Kafka once said, "a book must be an ax which we can take against the frozen sea within us." Where the force of identity politics has failed heretofore, perhaps the vertiginous decentering occasioned by reflections on the metaphysics of identity can lead to the unforced consensus upon which all social movements depend...