Word: kafka
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Aides no longer walked; they ran. Locks barred the presidential doors, and red and green traffic lights informed ministers when to knock, when to wait. In the halls, guards appeared, toting their submachine guns. "This place gives me the creeps now," complained a palace reporter. "It's like Kafka...
...Elephant and Colosseum, Lowry tries the bulky device of symbolizing his work as an elephant, presumably patient, massive, mnemonic, with a final trumpeting of glory. In Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession, he links his premonitions of death and damnation with the fates of Keats, Poe and Kafka...
This is not a story by Franz Kafka or by one of his contemporary imitators. It is a recent dream remembered in precise detail by a successful New Yorker (one wife, three children, fair income, no analyst) who works with every outward appearance of contentment in one of Manhattan's new, midtown office buildings. Whatever Freudian or other analysis might make of it, the dream could serve as a perfect allegory for an era that is almost universally regarded as the Age of Anxiety. It speaks of big city towers in which life is lived in compartments and cubicles...
Here Comes Pete Now, by Thomas Anderson. The New York waterfront serves as background to an oblique parable of man's groping, with Beckett and Kafka overtones...
...best of all fictional accounts of the Korean war. Anderson's new novel is set down as firmly as its title, but what it pins to paper is an experience that shades from simple fact into fantasy and compulsion, in much the hallucinatory manner of Franz Kafka...