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Bookmark or Share- Fiction – Bookforum MagazineLeppin, immediately recognizable in his large hats and loud ties, captivated listeners, among them Max Brod and Franz Kafka, with readings from his fiction and poetry at the Café Arco. Unfortunately, however, he could not tear himself away from Prague.
- 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."
- Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer - Steven G. Kellman - Bookforum ...Like Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Coetzee, Franz Kafka, and Margaret Atwood, Foer extends his empathy to nonhuman beings. “For the animals,” wrote Isaac Bashevis Singer, another literary vegetarian, “it is an eternal Treblinka.”
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