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Bookmark or Share- Life Goes On by Hans Keilson - Bookforum MagazineComedy, a darkly humorous tale that earned Keilson comparisons to Franz Kafka, is about a Dutch couple who hide a Jew in their house, only to have him die under their roof, causing all sorts of problems (namely, how do they dispose of the body without the Nazis discovering they were hiding it). Death, on the other hand, is an even stranger ...
- Talking books with Judy Blume and Lena Dunham; reading Chekhov for a ...Susan Bernovsky’s new translation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, with an introduction by filmmaker David Cronenberg, is now available. Bookforum contributor Andrew Hultkrans writes: “In our present era, marked by a ferment of genetic engineering and hybridization (not to mention isolation and economic hardship), revisiting this text ...
- Jul 22, 2010 @ 9:00:00 am - Bookforum MagazineFranz Kafka. The Trial: On Monday a delegation of important-looking men representing powerful bureaucracies pried open safe-deposit boxes in Tel Aviv containing a trove of mysterious writings, while an heir laying claim to the boxes shouted, "It's mine, it's mine."
- The Unfinished Novel - Bookforum MagazineThe Castle by Franz Kafka Kafka is intensely present in all his work, but especially so in this novel, which he began writing in 1922 and left unfinished, in midsentence, when his tuberculosis took a turn for the worse (it killed him two years later).
- Maxine Hong Kingston in conversation with Gish Jen; Laura Kolbe on how ...Maxine Hong Kingston. Photo: Michael Lionstar/Penguin Random House. On Monday, June 13, Maxine Hong Kingston will be joined in an online conversation by Gish Jen, author of The Resisters, at 92Y to celebrate the publication of a Library of America edition of Kingston’s books The Woman Warrior, Tripmaster Monkey, China Men, and other collected writings.
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