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Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. The most trenchant study to date of the strange writer in whose nightmarish parables of human alienation 20th century man has found a chilling portrait of himself...
...Little Theatrical." Stern develops an ulcer, ''a hairy, coarse-tufted little animal within him that squawked for nourishment," and is sent to a nightmarish rest home populated by a brilliant set of grotesques that might be right out of Hieronymus Bosch. Stern emerges to have a nervous breakdown, which Author Friedman manages to make both hugely comic and horrendously real...
...None may receive callers, except a doctor or clergyman. Those permitted to leave their homes during the day must report regularly to police. It was enough to make South Africans wonder, said Johannesburg's Sunday Times, "whether they live in a civilized country or a land of nightmarish fantasy...
...holding little talks with his dead mother, compulsively wets his bed and picks his nose, afterward, as Miss Frame relentlessly reports, "peering curiously at the little blobs of salvage." Irishman Pat Keenan talks in obsessive clichés about the threat of "foreigners and blacks," is too troubled by nightmarish fear of the Blessed Virgin to get married. Ex-Schoolteacher Zoe Bryce broods endlessly upon her first kiss, which occurred when she was 37. It was perpetrated by an unshaven seaman who crept to her bed in the ship's hospital, kissed her and disappeared unrecognized forever...
...campus was a nightmarish shambles, strewn with wrecked vehicles, hunks of concrete, countless tear-gas canisters, and the green chips of thousands of smashed Coke bottles. Oxford and its environs swarmed with soldiers-some 16,000 of them, more than the combined civilian population of town and university. As if making up for calling out troops belatedly, the Administration had finally called out far more than could possibly have been needed...