Word: kafka
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...Franz Kafka, In the Penal Colony...
...contrast between the high-minded explainer of literary culture and the unbuttoned comedian who writes America's most raucously funny novels; the zigzagging from realism to fantasy, political satire to slapstick; and the dual image of the Connecticut country gentleman and the writing drudge whose spiritual home is Kafka's Prague...
...stage of the game I know it. I know there is no way out. You choose your prison, and I've tried to put mine in paradise." The room is neat and sparsely furnished. A worn book about Newark is at hand for reference, and a haunted Franz Kafka gazes from a prominently displayed photograph to remind the writer of paradise's alternative...
...Zuckerman trilogy distorts those rewards with comic punishments. Roth's inspiration for the character came after several trips to Czechoslovakia. He was stirred by the contrast between the benign annoyances of literary celebrity in the U.S. and the repression of writers in Prague, Kafka's home town. "In America," he observes, "everything goes and nothing matters. While in Eastern Europe, nothing goes and everything matters." The calculated absurdity of the Zuckerman books is that everything goes and everything matters...
...house he lived in as a boy. Prodded by her estranged husband (Jean Yanne) and provoked by the state prosecutor (Gabriel Byrne), by whom she has become pregnant, Hanna stands her ground, and nearly digs her own grave. By the end she is a spiritual sibling to Kafka's Joseph K.-a displaced person in a land where everyone tries to be reasonable and nothing makes sense...