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Welles was basking in the afterglow and acclaim that attended the completion of the Welles-directed, Welles-scripted version of Kafka's The Trial, the story of a man victimized by the impersonal hostility of a bureaucratic world he never made. Viewers of the early rushes, including Directors Anatole Litvak and Jules Dassin, say they witnessed the birth of a classic. Twenty-one years after his Citizen Kane won him the title of boy genius and doomed him to a lifetime of trying to hold on to it, Orson Welles seemed to be making a comeback...
...many Harvard students the University Health Services is a mysterious organization from some Kafka-like nightmare: an impersonal bureaucracy that demands an annual tribute of sixty-eight dollars and seems to give nothing in return except an occasional physical examination. To others it is the well-meaning but bumbling agency that lives in the funny building on Mt. Auburn Street. In any case, it doesn't rate very highly...
Nothing important happens in the nasty story as practiced by Fiedler, and what does happen usually serves only as an excuse for a showy dream sequence or waking horror episode that owes far less than its creator imagines to the writings of Kafka. Still, there are plots. One of them allows a loathsome young man to be purged of childhood guilt by visiting the apartment of one of his former high school teachers, who was also the antiquated mistress of the young man's best friend. Without opening the door, the hero realizes from the smell seeping...
...From a Kafka Hell. The mystique of the paratrooper, says Author Lartèguy, was born in the Kafka-like hell of Communist prison camps in Viet Nam after the fall of Dienbienphu. Like U.S. soldiers captured in the Korean war, the French were subjected to intensive brainwashing-but with vastly different results. The paratroop officers made a calculated decision to embrace the "political fiction" of the camp. They signed petitions condemning capitalism, accused themselves of monstrous crimes, made a noisy show of repentance, and even wrote a "progressive" hymn in which each word had a double meaning. They answered...
Heller's Yossarian might have been the creature of a benign Kafka-engagingly bedeviled, drolly pathetic. By feigning madness in ways that only a madman could invent (standing naked in formation to receive a Distinguished Flying Cross, marching backward in parades), Yossarian proclaims his withdrawal from the whole business of the war itself...