Word: paradox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox, by Heinz Politzer. A brilliant guide to the nightmarish parables of a writer who saw individual man as a helpless insect lost in the mass world he has helped create...
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...
Your reviewer of Politzer's book, Franz Kafka, Parable and Paradox [Dec. 21], mentions Kafka's closest friend and refers to his "good sense in preserving the records of a genius" by which "the generation that has passed since then has been deeply marked." Why keep anonymous this friend who has rendered such far-reaching service by his power of judgment and foresight, and who is indeed one of the most interesting figures in the history of contemporary literature? This friend is the author-philosopher Max Brod, who has also launched other writers on their way to fame...
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...
FRANZ KAFKA, PARABLE AND PARADOX (376 pp.)-Heinz Politzer-Cornell University Press...