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Kafkaesque nightmare or Orwellian hell: which dystopia are we currently living in?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoEIn the upcoming Radio 4 series Orwell vs Kafka, Ian Hislop recounts being told off by a reader of...
Reading “The Trial” 100 Years After Kafka’s Death
Princeton Town Topics· 1 day agoAccording to one of Kafka’s biographers, Frederick R. Karl, in a 1991 interview, “Kafkaesque” is “when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your ...
In Moving Kafka Beyond the Page, a Television Series Succeeds Where the Likes of Orson Welles Have...
The New York Sun· 2 days agoHere’s a prediction: Critics will twist themselves into knots while trying to spin the adjective “...
Franz Kafka Romance ‘The Glory of Life’ Sells Wide
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 3 days agoInternational buyers are swooning over The Glory of Life, a very un-Kafkaesque love story about Franz Kafka and his last romance. The German-language...
‘Kafka’ Review: On ChaiFlicks, the Man Behind ‘The Metamorphosis’
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day agoThe series, aside from the Brod-dominated episode 1, is focused on various aspects of Kafka’s life,...
Elon Musk, America's richest immigrant, is angry about immigration. Can he influence the election?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 3 days agoThe most financially successful immigrant in the U.S. — the third-richest person in the world — has...
Kafka 100: the Post Office scandal really was Kafkaesque – it’s right out of his novel The Trial
The Conversation· 2 days agoSpecifically, it’s the famous opening line of The Trial, which continues to resonate powerfully 100 years after the author’s death. Generations of readers have found something deeply affecting ...
Kafka: Making of an Icon – a kaleidoscopic look at the man behind the image
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLike Franz Kafka himself, this is an exhibition with two very different faces. One is a...
This November, Arizona could change the rules of electoral politics
The Hill· 2 days agoArizona is center stage for every issue that Democrats and Republicans are using to drive votes to...
A century after his death Franz Kafka is still in the zeitgeist
The Economist· 7 days agoFranz Kafka was not a social person: he spent much of his time alone, trying, and often failing, to...