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VICTORIAN MURDERESSES by MARY S. HARTMAN 318 pages. Schocken...
Died. Theodore Schocken, 60, president of Schocken Books, Inc.; after a long illness; in White Plains, N.Y. A Jew, Schocken took over his father's Berlin publishing house in 1934 at the age of 19, issued a collection of Franz Kafka, including the corrosively antitotalitarian novel The Trial. Publication was soon halted by the Gestapo. Driven into exile in 1938, Schocken fought with the U.S. Army against the Nazis, later established his own publishing house in New York, bringing out translations of Kafka's once verboten works...
LETTERS TO FELICE by FRANZ KAFKA Edited by ERICH HELLER and JURGEN BORN Translated by JAMES STERN and ELISABETH DUCKWORTH 620 pages. Schocken Books...
...Kafka set up the situation so he could write about the turmoil it caused him. He despised himself for still living at home with his mother and father, a bluff haberdasher whom Kafka attempted to blame for his neurasthenia. For the full treatment read Letter to His Father (Schocken Books, 1953), 45 pages of controlled rage, respect, affection and revulsion...
...HEAVEN, NEW EARTH by Kenelm Burridge. 191 pages. Schocken Books. $5.50. The vision of the millennium as a golden age of freedom and affluence is a quasi-religious phenomenon that occurs in decaying cultures. In examining a number of millenary movements among primitive peoples, Anthropologist Burridge observes a quaint custom of the behavioral sciences by elaborating the obvious, painfully...