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Welles has chosen to treat Kafka's novel quite differently from the way Kafka himself might have adapted it for the screen. Kafka wrote about the individual: his private despair, and his search for himself and a place in the world. Welles' version contains much more social criticism. For Kafka the impenetrable bureaucracy of the Lay Court and the unnamable guilt of the main character, Joseph K., are symbols of the helplessness of the individual soul. For Welles they are social references meant to be interpreted almost literally. In the book, Joseph K. dies stabbed through the heart, with...
Cambridge is quite a change from Dublin, where the professor has lectured approximately ten hours a week for about nine years (with a three-year interval in the "unreal, Kafka-like prison of the Irish Civil Service"). So far, the vitality and the variety to be found in Cambridge appeal to Donoghue, although he would not like to settle permanently amidst the clamor of urban life. He feels that "the range of conversation" and the "multiplicity of viewpoints" here are "wider than at any other European university." He finds the faculty also very "lively and flexible in their viewpoints...
...This is like Kafka," muttered tried-and-blue Comedian Lenny Bruce, 37, hung up at Idlewild Airport by customs officials after a fast round trip to Britain, where the Home Office denied him entry. His London nightclub booking set off a parliamentary furor-"If we want four-letter words," sniffed a Tory M.P., "we can train our own people"-but that was the least of Lenny's worries. Back home, he was booked solid. Appealing a one-year jail sentence for an obscenity conviction in Chicago, he faced a similar charge in California, plus two narcotics raps. Wherever...
Director Anatole Litvak tangles the skein of fate with finesse; from Sophia he has coaxed some fine flashes of doe-eyed terror, and he has allowed Tony to prove what a convincing actor he can be when he is not embroiled with Kafka or Racine...
...Trial. Orson Welles presents Kafka in chiaroscuro, an adaptation filled with wondrous Wellesian camera work, spectacularly haunting sets, and a troupe of actors who try to outdo themselves and-in some instances-end up by being undone...