Word: kafka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...surprised not to find A Country Doctor anticlimactic. It's a one-act adaptation of a Kafka story by Hans Werner Henze, consisting entirely of a dramatic monologue by the title character. Philip Kelsey turns in a remarkable performance, in which every word is distinct and every word radiates a baffled, innocent hopelessness that progresses into insanity. The refusal of the people around him to seize responsibility for their own lives without benefit of elergy, doctors, or other agents of the state combined with his own inabilities, makes his life increasingly unbearable: "What do they want from doctors," he asks...
...CASE HISTORY OF COMRADE V by James Park Sloan. A government scientist in the County of L- is accused of a statistical error and persecuted by an enigmatic bureaucracy. Kafka with mirrors...
...become indecipherable, when the sheer velocity of time speeds up to such an extent that entire landscapes disappear in a season, and when jet travel no longer seems a violation of natural law, these two thousand pages require a virtual suspension of existence in order to be read. Kafka's observation that it should take a lifetime to travel from one village to another implies a universe in which even the completion of simple activities occupies a disproportionate space in our lives. This is what happens in reading Proust: the dailiness of life is repudiated. Our lives are not long...
This is a movie that confounds all preconceptions and expectations. The plot-an innocent man is vaguely accused of a crime and shunted from prison to prison-suggests political reform, social outrage, harrowing character study and, ultimately, Kafka. But thanks to the skill of the superb comic actor Alberto Sordi and the subtly inflected direction of Nanni Loy (The Four Days of Naples), Why is a comedy that smiles like a razor...
...Amerika, Kafka's ubiquitous K. figure finds the Statue of Liberty mysteriously illumined, and ends his journey in the wondrous "nature theatre of Oklahoma." According to Biographer Klaus Mann, Kafka, like many armchair immigrants, "imagined that all Americans wore a perpetual smile...