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...into believing they perceive subtle new connections among ideas and events. But in The Hunger Artist, which opened off-Broadway last week, Clarke has turned toward narrative and dialogue, and what meets the ear and brain is less than what meets the eye. The passages she has culled from Kafka, particularly The Metamorphosis, are familiar; the actors sometimes find eerie pathos but often waver between lobotomized declamation and coarse accent comedy. And there is unattractive self-pity in the vision of an artist as a caged carnival act. Still, there are magic tricks, bursts of flame, ritual burials...
...career. He earned his doctorate and went on to teaching positions at the University of Iowa and Princeton. The Roths live in suburban Philadelphia, where he is a professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. His critical books include The Jewish American Novel: Is Enough Enough? and Franz Kafka: The Sit-Down Comic...
This is a novel written in blood and Inc. The author has been a speechwriter for Lee Iacocca, Gerald Ford and the chairman of the board of American Motors, and he has manifestly spent many hours with Kafka's In the Penal Colony and Orwell's dystopian visions. Walker's central figure, a nameless public relations man for a major corporation, is getting stale. The company packs him off for behavioral conditioning. Walker is not much on acronyms: the victim is made to undergo PAR--Positive Attitudinal Reinforcement--and SAD--Supervisory Aptitude Development. But the forced seminars ring with comic...
Gilliam has called Brazil "Walter Mitty meets Franz Kafka" and describes its unique, post-Orwellian setting as "somewhere on the Los Angeles-Belfast border." The film's hero, Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce), shambles efficiently through his job at the Ministry of Information records department but lives for his dreams, in which he is girded like Lochinvar, aloft like Icarus, fighting to save a fair heroine from giant samurai and evil, baby-faced thugs. One day he meets Jill Layton (Kim Griest), a truck driver who lived in the flat above the late Mr. Buttle's and looks exactly like...
...begin and end with this cartoon of frothing male vituperation does nothing to reveal how a Strindberg play can still electrify an audience in 1985, or to explain why writers as different as Kafka and Camus, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre have read Strindberg with admiration bordering on reverence...