Franz Kafka's Books
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The MetamorphosisKafka's masterpiece about Gregor Samsa, a young man who, transformed overnight into a “monstrous verminous bug”, becomes an essentially alienated...Read More -
The Metamorphosis, in ihe Penal Colony and Other StoriesTranslated by PEN translation award-winner Joachim Neugroschel, The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories has garnered critical acclaim...Read More
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The List, November 19, 2009
...her favourite actress, Katharine Hepburn. Curiously, she writes beautifully and personally about cinema but when she tackles literature (Franz Kafka and David Foster Wallace are two of her chosen authors), there seems to be a disappointing distance at...
Haaretz, November 5, 2009
...moment someone would show an interest in them. 'Once there was also some sort of a card from Franz Kafka, but my mother sold it to someone in Germany a long time ago,' actor Eli Gorenstein, owner of the suitcases, recalled. A long time passed. Whenever...
Chicago Tribune, October 30, 2009
...Penguin in December. The book contains more than. 80 summarized classics, including Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis,” as well as “Crime and Punishment” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Guardian released an...
Prague Monitor, October 27, 2009
...Prague, Oct 26 (CTK) - Austrian novelist playwright, poet and essayist Peter Handke, 66, received the 2009 international Franz Kafka Prize, called after the famous Prague-born German Jewish writer, yesterday. He has become the ninth winner of the award...
CBC, October 25, 2009
...Israel's National Library is demanding that a German museum hand over the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial. The library says the manuscript — sold at auction for $2 million US in 1988 to a book dealer acting on behalf of the...
New Zealand Herald, October 25, 2009
...By Rory McCarthy Franz Kafka Israel's National Library is calling on a German museum to hand over the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial to correct a "historical error", in...
Observer, October 24, 2009
...Rory McCarthy in Jerusalem The Observer, Franz Kafka in 1905. Photograph: /Hulton Archive Israel's National Library is calling on a German museum to hand over the original manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial to...
Japan Times, October 24, 2009
...in packaging this book — it is jacketed in "Sex and the City" black and pink. Ovid and Franz Kafka would have heartily approved. So would Candace Bushnell...
News24.com, October 23, 2009
...goal is laughs and gasps, not a study aid for students trying to comprehend Milton's Paradise Lost, Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis, or William Shakespeare's plays. Take Dante's Inferno - which the authors did in Twitter entries that are restricted to...
Reuters UK, October 23, 2009
...goal is laughs and gasps, not a study aid for students trying to comprehend Milton's 'Paradise Lost,' Franz Kafka's 'The Metamorphosis,' or William Shakespeare's plays. Take Dante's 'Inferno' -- which the authors did in Twitter entries that are...
Haaretz, October 22, 2009
...of Modern Literature yesterday rejected a demand from Israel's National Library that it return the manuscript of Franz Kafka's novel 'The Trial,' saying it acquired the manuscript legally. The National Library claims the manuscript was illegally sold to...
Prague Monitor, October 1, 2009
...Kundera defines Central European culture in comparison with Western and Eastern culture. He names excellent Central European novelists Franz Kafka, Jaroslav Hasek, Robert Musil, Hermann Broch and Witold Gombrowicz, pointing to their aversion to...
Harpers Magazine, September 30, 2009
...By Scott Horton Franz Kafka?s The Trial revolves around a surrealistic legal procedure governed by a nontransparent logic. At times it seems a criticism of what scholars call ?legal indeterminacy,? that is, the...
MedIndia, September 19, 2009
...Reading a book written by Franz Kafka or watching a film by director David Lynch can enhance your learning power, sugges...
The Scotsman, September 14, 2009
...The Mammoth Book Of Wolf Men and Star Wars: Darth Bane: Dynasty Of Evil was... The Trial by Franz Kafka. A cover showing Josef K seeing off werewolves with a lightsabre might do wonders for sales...
Turkish Daily, September 11, 2009
...which publishes world classics in the form of comic books, has been released. ?The Trial,? a novel by Franz Kafka, one of the most influential writers in world literature, is on sale in bookstores as a comic book. The first book of Comic World...
Combined Jewish Philanthropies, September 8, 2009
...Franz Kafka's legacy metamorphoses into Israeli ownership trial Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israel's national library has taken two elderly sisters to court in a bid to...
Jewish Federation of Rhode Island, September 8, 2009
...s national library has taken two elderly sisters to court in a bid to obtain the papers of Franz Kafka, which the sisters inherited as part of the legacy of Czech-Jewish author and playwright Max Brod, good friend of the celebrated Czech author. The...
Monsters and Critics, September 8, 2009
...s national library has taken two elderly sisters to court in a bid to obtain the papers of Franz Kafka, which the sisters inherited as part of the legacy of Czech-Jewish author and playwright Max Brod, good friend of the celebrated Czech author. The...
FOX 43, September 8, 2009
...And better to adapt Cave?s new novel (which Irvine Welsh described as the product of ?Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse?) rather than his first, And the Ass Saw the Angel, which was ambitious but...
Newport Plain Talk, September 5, 2009
...time and space once they begin having dinner together. Along the way they meet incredibly interesting people like Franz Kafka and George Washington Carver. They learn history and culture, food lore and fascinating facts, and most of all they learn that...
Drowned In Sound, September 2, 2009
...iTunes. It's attracted a few good reviews, too. Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame said: 'Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. A compulsive read possessing...
Drowned In Sound, September 2, 2009
...iTunes. It's attracted a few good reviews, too. Irvine Welsh of Trainspotting fame said: 'Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. A compulsive read possessing...
New York Post, August 31, 2009
...do the same thing over and over within a giant, dehumanizing structure. It's a little bit like Franz Kafka set to the workplace. "Working" by Studs Terkel. That's a great breakthrough in journalism that came out in 1972. He interviews over 100 different...
Telegraph, August 22, 2009
...Smith, 29, and swigging from a bottle of Drambuie malt whisky, Scott compared himself with a character from Franz Kafka's The Trial. He said: ''In the trial a person is accused and brought to court and yet the crime is unspecified. I know in my case what...
Canadian Jewish News, August 19, 2009
...provides a capsule description, thematic analysis, a few sparkling insights, and perhaps the occasional explanation regarding the selection. Franz Kafka's Amerika, for example, was penned in 1927 by an author who never set foot in America. Further,...
North Jersey.com, August 17, 2009
...Complaint,' 'American Pastoral,' 'Patrimony: A True Story' and 'The Plot Against America.' One of his stories even imagines Franz Kafka teaching Hebrew in postwar Newark. Next year, Roth will publish 'Nemesis,' a historical novel about a summer polio...
The Independent, August 13, 2009
...From unearned income (Henry James, Marcel Proust) and scrounging and sponsorship (James Joyce, DH Lawrence) to nine-to-five drudgery (Franz Kafka, Fernando Pessoa), the history of breakthroughs in modern writing is one long, scrappy fight for the time...
Encarta, August 12, 2009
...gigantic insect.' a) Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe b) Angels and Insects, A. S. Byatt c) The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka d) Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig 2 'All children, except one, grow up.' a) Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne b) Alice?s...
Digital Spy, August 12, 2009
...also penned the screenplay for the 2005 western The Proposition. Fellow author Irvine Welsh said: 'Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. 'A compulsive read...
TwinCities.com, August 2, 2009
...s East End. Her new novel, 'In the Kitchen,' might be more likely to call up comparisons with Franz Kafka. The contemporary clash of cultures and classes is vital to this book as well, but its protagonist stumbles into a surreal journey that leaves the...
Indymedia Ireland, July 25, 2009
...zinester greats as Al Burian (Burn Collector Zine) and Dave Roche (On Subbing). Ross O Carroll Kelly) says, 'Franz Kafka meets Flann O'Brien meets John Kennedy Toole. Transmorphosis & Other Short Story reads like a collection of your worst cheese...
Akron Beacon Journal, July 19, 2009
...s East End. Her new novel, In the Kitchen, might be more likely to call up comparisons with Franz Kafka. The contemporary clash of cultures and classes is vital to this book as well, but its protagonist stumbles into a surreal journey that leaves the...
Telegraph, July 11, 2009
...years. It focuses on a sex-obsessed travelling salesman, and has been described by author Irvine Welsh as part Franz Kafka, part Benny Hill. September 15 Dan Brown The Lost Symbol. The much-anticipated sequel to The Da Vinci Code, one of the...
Mehr News, July 11, 2009
...His fiction and non-fiction works have garnered him critical acclaim, and he is the sixth recipient of the Franz Kafka Prize for his novel ?Kafka on the Shore.? He is considered by critics as an important figure in postmodern literature, and The Guardian...
The Hindu, July 4, 2009
...of Babel (1974): a set of unbound folios of haunting lithographs accompanied by letter press printed texts by Franz Kafka about the imagery and myths of Babel. ?As artwork, the artist-book belongs in galleries, as books in libraries and bookstores, as...
St. Petersburg Times, July 4, 2009
...s East End. Her new novel, In the Kitchen, might be more likely to call up comparisons to Franz Kafka. The contemporary clash of cultures and classes is vital to this book as well, but its protagonist stumbles into a surreal journey that leaves the...
Finding Dulcinea, July 3, 2009
...Living a life tortured by his own insecurity and lack of connection to the world around him, Franz Kafka found comfort in his writing. Known only to a small group during his lifetime, the Czech author's work was published against his wishes after his...
Sun Publications, July 1, 2009
...Scott Fitzgerald, 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' by Robert Louis Stevenson, and 'The Metamorphosis and Other Stories' by Franz Kafka. For information, call 495-2400 or visit www.jocolibrary.org...
Lower Hudson Online, June 28, 2009
...If Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler's love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble China Mieville's new novel, 'The City and the City.' Mieville is a talented fabulist, and his work roams boldly across genres: dark...
Exclaim!, June 23, 2009
...the UK coastal town where Cave now lives. As Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting, says, 'Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse and they might just come up with Bunny Munro.' Bunny Munro isnât...
Blogcritics.org, June 22, 2009
...In another comic book, 'Masterful Funnies,' Charlie Brown becomes 'Good Ol' Gregor Brown' and the lead character of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. The comic book also summarizes Albert Camus' The Stranger with a promo showing the covers of a Superman...
Blogcritics.org, June 22, 2009
...In another comic book, 'Masterful Funnies,' Charlie Brown becomes 'Good Ol' Gregor Brown' and the lead character of Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis. The comic book also summarizes Albert Camus' The Stranger with a promo showing the covers of a Superman...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 8, 2009
...If Philip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler's love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble China Mieville's new novel. Mieville is one of our most talented fabulists, and his work roams boldly across genre, but his...
Japan Times, June 6, 2009
...and garnered global acclaim. The 60-year-old has won such foreign literary honors as the Jerusalem Prize and the Franz Kafka award. His name has been floated as a future Novel Prize laureate...
Breitbart.com, June 5, 2009
...garnered acclaim globally, with the 60-year-old having won such foreign literary honors as the Jerusalem Prize and the Franz Kafka award. His name has been floated as a future Novel Prize laureate. Mitsuyoshi Numano, a Tokyo University professor and...
Hampton Roads Daily Press, May 31, 2009
...If and Raymond Chandler's love child were raised by Franz Kafka, the writing that emerged might resemble China Mieville's new novel, 'The City & the City.' Mieville is one of our most talented fabulists, and his work roams boldly...
Deutsche Welle, May 26, 2009
...In an interview with dpa news agency, Kappacher said he particularly admired the works of Czech-born German-speaking author Franz Kafka and Irish writer Samuel Beckett. 'Having role models doesn't mean that I can or want to write like them,' said...
Wales Online, May 25, 2009
...Sethi The satirical novelist and German scholar refashions everything we thought we knew about the C20th literary icon, Franz Kafka. When? 11:30am Venue? Dream Stage Paddy Ashdown The Joseph Rotblat Lecture 2009: Ashdown?s Third Law When? 2:30pm Venue?...
Wales Online, May 16, 2009
...the Night-time. And I?m happy with that though I was flitting between reading Robert Louis Stevenson and Franz Kafka when I was writing it...
Suite101.com, May 15, 2009
...his major influence on later prominent writers. To name a few, they include Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Charles Baudelaire. Hoffmann also greatly influenced famous composers who used his tales...
Suite101.com, May 3, 2009
...Heller (Catch 22), Frank Herbert (Dune), Michael Herr (Dispatches), Aldous Huxley, Clive James, W. E. Johns, James Joyce, Franz Kafka (The Trial and The Castle), Lucretius (On The Nature of the Universe). George Lucas, Alistair MacLean, Ken MacLeod, The...
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...another for half price. Classic titles included in the offer are: Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig. How do I benefit? Click hereto see all of the titles included...
New York Times, April 20, 2009
...for insomniac bibliophiles, and we even get a section about writers who suffered from the other bedroom problem: Franz Kafka (unsurprisingly, given the sleeplessness of his victim heroes) was a lifelong insomniac. After an hours restless slumber, he...
Winston-Salem Journal, April 12, 2009
...the world's foremost German literary translators. Among books he has translated are Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka, The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller and Ashes for Breakfast: Selected Poems by Durs Grunbein. The evening is sponsored...
Louisville Courier-Journal, March 31, 2009
...of prose. The daughter of a fiction writer and a book critic, Davis had an early love of Franz Kafka ? and was reading German by second grade...
Xinhua News Agency, March 19, 2009
...was nominated for Pulitzer prize in prosaic category. Last year, he was the Laureate of the International Literary Franz Kafka Prize...
Moscow Times, March 18, 2009
...an oddly moving sense of banality by Anatoly Goryachev, strikes one at times as a literary relative of Franz Kafka's hapless heroes. He is more active in his resistance to, and somewhat less trapped by, the existential forces of the world, but he is a...
Guardian Unlimited, March 17, 2009
...Cervantès (8) L'Education sentimentale by Gustave Flaubert (7) The Bible (6) Fictions by Borges (6) Journal by Franz Kafka (6) Moby Dick by Melville (6) The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky (6) Une saison en enfer by Arthur Rimbaud (6) Anna Karenina by...
Washington Post, February 19, 2009
...org. GREAT BOOKS CLUB, 1 p.m. Monday, Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Discussion of 'The Helmsman' by Franz Kafka, and of a selection from 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.' New members welcome. Free. 540-347-8750, Ext. 6. SOCRATES CAFE, for...
MSNBC Newsweek, February 14, 2009
...with no black people whatsoever, so it really blew my mind in eighth grade. 4. 'The Trial' by Franz Kafka. It expanded my definition of what a book had the potential to be. 5. 'A Season on the Brink' by John Feinstein. The book that made me want to...
MSNBC Newsweek, January 31, 2009
...turned me inside out at 15 and made me want to become a writer. 4. 'Collected Stories' by Franz Kafka. It teaches us how to look at ourselves and the world in a new way. After reading Kafka, you are changed forever. 5. 'Collected Works' by William...
Christian Science Monitor, January 28, 2009
...wouldn?t have ?The Trial? and ?The Castle? if lifelong friend Max Brod had kept his promise to Franz Kafka and burned his unpublished writings as the dying Kafka asked him to. It turns out to have been an excellent decision for Kafka?s legacy...
Asheville Citizen-Times, January 25, 2009
...101st Street, a favorite bird spot in the park. One of Rosen's father's favorite stories was Franz Kafka's parable about Poseidon. The Greek sea god never got to see his domain because he was so busy with administrative paperwork. 'Get out of the office'...
Guardian Unlimited, January 7, 2009
...severe difficulty of his writing. Despite winning the first ever Ingeborg Bachmann prize in 1977, and later the Franz Kafka and Berlin Literature prizes, among numerous others, people tended to respect rather than read Jonke. Which makes it all the more...
Los Angeles Times, January 6, 2009
...all.' -- Henry David Thoreau 'A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.' -- Franz Kafka 'A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its...
Guardian Unlimited, January 6, 2009
...Franz Kafka's own work scared him. Photograph: Getty If we accept Vladimir Nabokov's judgment that 'a good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a re-reader...
Radio Netherlands, December 27, 2008
...one of Britain's greatest playwrights; he is usually named in the same breath as Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka. A vocal critic Pinter left his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant in the 1970s and married the historian, Lady Antonia Frazer in 1980....
Radio Netherlands, December 26, 2008
...one of Britain's greatest playwrights; he is usually named in the same breath as Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka. A vocal critic Pinter left his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant in the 1970s and married the historian, Lady Antonia Frazer in 1980....
USA Today, December 25, 2008
...and actor. In addition to crafting film versions of several of his own plays, he adapted works by Franz Kafka (The Trial), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Last Tycoon), Ian McEwan (The Comfort of Strangers), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) and John Fowles...
Lafayette Journal & Courier, December 25, 2008
...and actor. In addition to crafting film versions of several of his own plays, he adapted works by Franz Kafka ('The Trial'), F. Scott Fitzgerald ('The Last Tycoon'), Ian McEwan ('The Comfort of Strangers'), Margaret Atwood ('The Handmaid's Tale') and...
Hollywood Life, December 25, 2008
...evacuate to rural Cornwall in 1939. He was 14 before he returned. By then, he was entranced with Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemingway. By 1950, Pinter had begun to publish poetry and appeared on stage as an actor. Pinter began to write for the stage, and...
USA Today, December 25, 2008
...and actor. In addition to crafting film versions of several of his own plays, he adapted works by Franz Kafka (The Trial), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Last Tycoon), Ian McEwan (The Comfort of Strangers), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) and John Fowles...
USA Today, December 25, 2008
...and actor. In addition to crafting film versions of several of his own plays, he adapted works by Franz Kafka (The Trial), F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Last Tycoon), Ian McEwan (The Comfort of Strangers), Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale) and John Fowles...
Brisbane Courier-Mail, December 12, 2008
...Scott Fitzgerald, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby, Ulysses by James Joyce, Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1984 by George Orwell, The Grapes of Wrath by John...
National Post, December 8, 2008
...if such a thing exists.' 20 posthumous works you should read before you die. 1 The Castle by Franz Kafka 2 A Confederacy Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 3 Dead Street by Mickey Spillane 4 A Death in the Family by James Agee 5 The Diary of a Young...
Cinesouth, December 3, 2008
...pieces to be published in Tamil. A reputed translator, he has translated a work of famous German novelist Franz Kafka into 'Theerpu' ('The Trial). C Mohan is a famed writer of short stories. These stories have been released as a book titled 'Ragasiya...
Ottawa Sun, November 30, 2008
...outer edges of experience, neither controlling their own destinies nor participating in society. Cockroach will remind readers of Franz Kafka's innovative Metamorphosis, a novel in which the hero emerges from sleep to find himself a giant insect. Hage's...
Seoul Times, November 22, 2008
...daily JoongAng Ilbo, Amb. Olaa said that the Czech Republic was home to such world-class literary giants as Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Milan Kundera (1929 -present). In addition to its rich history of literature, the Czech Republic is one of the few...
Incurable Disease of Writing, October 21, 2009
...“Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.” ~ Franz Kafka Image © Ctin Iulia...
dabroots, October 9, 2009
...York Times article about How Nonsense Sharpens the Intellect. It mentions the case of twenty college students reading Franz Kafka's short story, The Country Doctor, ("The doctor of the title has to make a house call on a boy with a terrible toothache. He...
BrontëBlog, October 2, 2009
...Austen The Odyssey by Homer Hamlet by William Shakespeare Moby-Dick by Herman Melville Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Walden and Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau Inferno by Dante Alighieri A...
NewPages Blog, October 2, 2009
...From Science Daily : Reading a book by Franz Kafka – or watching a film by director David Lynch – could make you smarter. "The idea is that when you're exposed to a meaning threat –– something that...
Variety SF, September 28, 2009
...rasfw is currently enumerating them . Names listed when I last saw it: Stanislaw Lem . Strugatsky brothers Karel Capek Franz Kafka Jules Verne . Yevgeny Zamyatin Frank Schätzing Eschbach Jorge Luis Borge A few specific books are also listed, sometimes...
in and around aislinn na muir, September 25, 2009
...The Assault on Reason </i> Al Gore <i> The Metamorphosis and Other Stories </i> Franz Kafka <i> Spirit of Place Letters and Essays on Travel </i> Lawrence Durrell <i> French Women For All Seasons </i>...
mental_floss Blog, September 23, 2009
...from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic vermin.” The first line of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis immediately launches readers into a surreal world where a man transforms into a bug and his family barely notices....
io9, September 17, 2009
...Columbia have been studying the effects of reading on cognitive functions. They had one group of subject read Franz Kafka 's short story "The Country Doctor," a strange and surreal tale, and had a second group read the same story, but structured in a way...
ePsychology.us, September 16, 2009
...Related News on The Web by admin | 1 views Link to this article: Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter. According to research by psychologists, exposure to surrealism enhances the...
ePsychology.us, September 16, 2009
...Related News on The Web by admin | 2 views Link to this article: Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- -- or watching a film by director David Lynch ? -- could make you smarter. Read the original post at Psychology News ... Share your thoughts. ...
Moopz Popular, September 15, 2009
...to comment - Like - Link Reading Kafka Improves Learning, Suggests Psychology Study — Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter. According to research by psychologists, exposure to surrealism...
ePsychology.us, September 15, 2009
...Related News on The Web by admin | 2 views Link to this article: Reading a book by Franz Kafka -- or watching a film by director David Lynch -- could make you smarter. Read the original post at PHYSorg.com: Medicine & Health News ... Share your...
Punknews.org, September 8, 2009
...audio and text versions of the book or watch videos. The novel has been described as "Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse" and is due via Faber & Faber.Check out the book here...
Article Discovery Articles and Analysis, September 4, 2009
...Germany is known for being a country of poetry and great thinkers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse are just a few authors whose names and works are well known internationally. Philosophy and the sciences would be...
Blogonary, September 2, 2009
...Germans are well known for their poets, classical musicians and great philosophers. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Hermann Hesse are just a few authors whose names and works are well known internationally. The philosophies of...
Books 'N Border Collies, August 27, 2009
...to our beliefs? One thing that would have been helpful for me would have been to have read Franz Kafka's short story, " A Report to an Academy ", because Elizabeth refers to it extensively during one of her addresses in one section of the book. I read...
Write Vision, August 26, 2009
...a bad situation. They are just as likely to escape justice as to receive it. The works of Franz Kafka and Fyodor Dostoevsky played a significant part in her own novels. Her recurring character Tom Ripley — an amoral, sexually ambiguous con artist...
3quarksdaily, August 22, 2009
...of Crime Audrey Niffenegger in the Guardian: Readers are chaotic. I am, anyway. I read out of order: Franz Kafka before Mark Twain, Mary Shelley before Lady Murasaki. I read To Kill a Mockingbird at 45, Women in Love at 12 (not that I understood much...
PowellsBooks.BLOG, August 21, 2009
...an American Dreamer by Stephen Millhauser The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino Cannery Row John Steinbeck Hopscotch Julio...
NewPages Blog, August 10, 2009
...Place’s “Conceptualism”), to a quote (Brian Evenson quotes Glenn Gould and Samuel Beckett, and Lance Olsen quotes Franz Kafka and Jerzy Kosinski), to a sentence—and sometimes many more (hey, just in case we’re paying by the word, right?)." ABR...
MVRemix, August 7, 2009
...bare the imprints that fathers leave on their sons. ISBN: 978-0-8654-910-4; Hardcover; $24.00 USD “Put Cormac McCarthy, Franz Kafka, and Benny Hill together in a Brighton seaside guesthouse, and they might just come up with Bunny Munro. As it stands,...
The Clothes Horse, June 12, 2009
..."A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen in your soul." Franz Kafka I repeat , there are few things lovelier than a shelf full of books. Pics via the Selby...
BHARATH MURTHY 'in' and 'as' THE ACTIONIST, June 7, 2009
...Franz Kafka Diary 25 Dec 1911 Franz Kafka Diary 25 Dec 1911 actionist Diary entry by Franz Kafka from Dec. 25th 1911, about a ‘literature of small people’. Gilles Deleuze and...
[Technorati] Tag results for short, May 11, 2009
...Story List: "Parker's Back" Flannery O'Connor "The Laughing Man" J.D. Salinger "In the Penal Colony" Franz Kafka "A Good, Small Thing" Raymond Carver "Black Pantaloons" William Faulkner "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" Ernest Hemingway "The...
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...Mann [translated by Kenneth Burke]"Flagman Thiel" - Gerhart Hauptmann [translated by Adele S Seltzer]"In the Penal Colony" - Franz Kafka [translated by Stanley Appelbaum]"The Golden Pot" - E.T.A. Hoffmann [translated by Thomas Carlyle]"How Old Timofei...
Conversational Reading, May 1, 2009
...Writing on Franz Kafka: The Office Writings in The New Republic , Louis Begley makes Kafka criticism sound a little, well, Kafkaesque: Thus was constituted the trove of Kafka's painfully personal papers that...
Later On, April 30, 2009
...Interesting review : Franz Kafka: The Office Writings by Franz Kafka A review by Louis Begley Franz Kafka was born in Prague in 1883 into an assimilated German-speaking middleclass Jewish family. He died of...
It's all about me, April 26, 2009
...Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky Night by Elie Wiesel Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka I'm glad that not everything I read was about World War II, but I regret not reading anything that would tell me more about Jewish...
FRESH INK BOOKS, April 2, 2009
...Lady by Heinrich Boll Billiards at Half-Past Nine by heinrich Boll Auto da Fe by Elias Amerika by Franz Kafka Three Bags Full by Leonie Swann Recommendations of good literary fiction of any kind or comments on these books are welcomed...
Eat, Sleep & Read!, March 23, 2009
...magical Prague that never was. The most prominent native son of Prague for the tourist crowd is apparently Franz Kafka, and the local supply of Kafka T-shirts and marionettes is inexhaustible. This is, of course, part of the city magic: who would...
Words Matter, March 22, 2009
...Sunday, March 22, 2009 History Maker Mondays-10 History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. --Karl Marx Franz Kafka (1883-1924) If today’s chosen mode of communication is limited to 140 words (ala Twitter), what does that say about the...
simon's MySpace Blog, March 9, 2009
..... Franz Kafka A Biography by Max Brod www.dacapopress.com For anyone who likes or has an interest in the life and writings of Franz Kafka this biography of...
Life of Andrew, March 8, 2009
...by Jonathan Stroud (2003) The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (2002) Neat idea well executed The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915) Odd Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (1962) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (1966) Perfume by...
Law is Cool, February 28, 2009
...In Czech novelist Franz Kafka’s The Trial , a man is arrested, forced to participate in a nightmarish, labyrinthine legal system administered by bureaucrats, presumed guilty, and executed without ever learning the nature of...
C. Leigh Purtill, February 25, 2009
...1. Shirley Jackson 2. Douglas Adams 3. John Kennedy Toole 4. Franz Kafka I just realized every one of these authors died young. Hmmm...
zwiefelhofer blog, February 19, 2009
...in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on intimate conversations in restaurants and lively beer halls with Karel Capek and Bohumil Hrabal, listen...
R J Dent, February 7, 2009
... There are four significant books by Franz Kafka. They are: The Trial The Castle Amerika The Complete Short Stories The Trial ...
Kit Whitfield's Blog, February 2, 2009
...almost all David Sedaris's books, including one I queued for him to sign. 7. The Trial by Franz Kafka I haven't read it, but I've read some of his short stories. 8. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter Second totally fair...
Blowin' In The Wind, January 30, 2009
...Updike, Gerald Durrell, Alistair Cooke, Graham Greene, Kingsley Amis, Michael Innes, Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway, F Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, every author neatly arranged. And it was at Oxford Bookshop on Park Street that I...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Jarrell Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Finnegans Wake by James Joyce The Castle by Franz Kafka Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor x @ Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester L'Histoire de Gil Blas de...
Daily Writing Tips, January 25, 2009
...the poor and marginalized members of society, and a burning anger at institutionalized social inequities. Kafkaesque (käf’kə-ĕsk’) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) created fictional worlds in which characters try to make sense of a nighmarish world in they...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...Jarrell Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome Finnegans Wake by James Joyce The Castle by Franz Kafka Lake Wobegon Days by Garrison Keillor Death and the Penguin by Andrey Kurkov The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester L'Histoire de Gil Blas de...
things mean a lot, January 25, 2009
...1992) 60. Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885) 61. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001) 62. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) 63. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) 64. Stephen King: The Shining (1977) 65. Marghanita Laski: The...
Pat's Fantasy Hotlist, January 24, 2009
...Men (1992) Richard Jefferies - After London; Or, Wild England (1885) Gwyneth Jones - Bold as Love (2001) Franz Kafka - The Trial (1925) Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon (1966) Stephen King - The Shining (1977) Marghanita Laski - The Victorian...
Uncertain Principles, January 24, 2009
...James After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones The Trial by Franz Kafka Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Shining by Stephen King The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, January 24, 2009
...James After London; or, Wild England by Richard Jefferies Bold as Love by Gwyneth Jones The Trial by Franz Kafka Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes The Shining by Stephen King The Victorian Chaise-longue by Marghanita Laski Uncle Silas by Joseph...
The Itinerant Librarian, January 23, 2009
...to find it. It's possible it went out with the "great weeding." 76. The Trial by Franz Kafka. 75. Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee. 74. Waiting for the Mahatma by RK Narayan. 73. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque. 72. Dinner at the...
Cornellbooksellers.com, January 22, 2009
...Children of Men (1992) Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885) Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001) Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) Stephen King: The Shining (1977) Marghanita Laski: The Victorian...
reverend mommy's random thoughts, January 22, 2009
...1992) 60. Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885) 61. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001) 62. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) 63. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) 64. Stephen King: The Shining (1977) 65. Marghanita Laski: The...
The Word, January 22, 2009
...1992) 60. Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885) 61. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001) 62. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) 63. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) 64. Stephen King: The Shining (1977) 65. Marghanita Laski: The...
Stainless Steel Droppings, January 22, 2009
...1992) 60. Richard Jefferies: After London; Or, Wild England (1885) 61. Gwyneth Jones: Bold as Love (2001) 62. Franz Kafka: The Trial (1925) 63. Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (1966) 64. Stephen King: The Shining (1977) 65. Marghanita Laski: The...
Omnivoracious, January 22, 2009
...there, and the book I often cite as my very favorite ends there, memorably, even though its author, Franz Kafka, also never set foot in Oklahoma--or anywhere else in America, for that matter. "Territory" is the operative word--it was one of the last...
Vivalared, January 21, 2009
...ENFERMO IMAGINARIO - MOLIÉRE EL ESCARABAJO DE ORO - EDGAR ALLAN POE EL ESCUDO DE LA CIUDAD - FRANZ KAFKA EL FARO DEL FIN DEL MUNDO - JULIO VERNE EL GATO NEGRO - EDGAR ALLAN POE EL HOBBIT - JRR TOLKIEN Bueno, ya me canse, pero aun quedan mas...
andrewjshields, January 18, 2009
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arbitrary constant, January 17, 2009
...The Guardian has been running an excellent survey of the short story. Part 13 is on Franz Kafka, and is available here. The full series is here. Below are my favourite parts of the survey so far, which reflects some...
virginia, January 12, 2009
...in the world in the company of its finest writers. Walk the mysterious nighttime streets of Prague with Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek, eavesdrop on intimate conversations in restaurants and lively beer halls with Karel Capek and Bohumil Hrabal, listen...
LA DIVA, January 10, 2009
...Saturday, January 10, 2009 When Classic Literature meets Reality T.V. I hold the belief that reality television would have spared classic writers the agony of starvation if it had come a couple of centuries earlier.Here's what reality T.V. would have...
mediabistro.com: GalleyCat, January 7, 2009
...his many writing credits was the first novelization of The Prisoner --a spy thriller miniseries seemingly scripted by Franz Kafka and shot by Federico Fellini . The free web video versions of the original series will prepare uninitiated viewers (and fans...
baithak, January 7, 2009
...do, manically funny, desperately sad and endlessly rewarding; less so to those who find it baffling and inconclusive. Franz Kafka is one of the best writers for readers who love asking "What does it mean?", one of the worst for those who want that...
Pofrika, January 5, 2009
...The Odyssey Henrik Ibsen, Norway, A Doll's House The Book of Job, Israel James Joyce, Ireland, Ulysses Franz Kafka, Bohemia, The Complete Stories Franz Kafka, Bohemia, The Trial Franz Kafka, Bohemia, The Castle Bohemia Kalidasa, India, The Recognition of...
The Hannibal Blog, January 5, 2009
...writing the first draft, I love writing subsequent drafts. This is the exact opposite of the way that Franz Kafka apparently did it: … it took a single night. On Sunday, Sept. 22, 1912, the day after Yom Kippur, the 29-year-old Kafka sat down at his...
Literary Kicks, January 4, 2009
...heckle a white man with a black girlfriend, yelling “How much did you pay for this slave girl?” Franz Kafka’s Amerika: The Missing Person , newly translated by Mark Harmon, is another glimpse of the USA through foreign fictional eyes, though in...
Psychology Today Blogs, January 2, 2009
...Marriage group. In fact, they offer their visitors a page of quotes about marriage, including this one from Franz Kafka: " It seems so dreadful to stay a bachelor, to become an old man struggling to keep one's dignity while begging for an invitation...
A Terrible Blogger is Born!, January 2, 2009
...My Tears, the Policeman Said - Phillip K. Dick 9. Crisis and Leviathan - Robert Higgs 10. Amerika- Franz Kafka 11. The Austrian Theory of the Trade Cycle and Other Essays 12. Lonesome Dove- Larry McMurtry 13. The Assassination of Jesse James by the...
El Burro Volador, December 30, 2008
...novel really exposed Dan Brown’s weak characterization and uninspired prose style to me. 20. The Trial - Franz Kafka / A convoluted novel about alienation from society. The sentiments in this book, horrifyingly prescient at the time it was written,...
Anglofille, December 30, 2008
...by J.M. Coetzee The Easter Parade by Richard Yates Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates The Trial by Franz Kafka The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami All of these books were written by men, which distresses me. I’ve always been a great lover...
change therapy, December 29, 2008
...work. how strange! why would a person happily accept such bondage? it is similar to the question that franz kafka poses in “the hunger artist,” where a man, who also chooses to become a circus attraction, starves himself to death because he can’t...
biblioklept, December 28, 2008
...I had a (very, very minor) Kafkaesque moment when Mark Harman’s new translation of Franz Kafka’s unfinished first novel, Amerika first arrived at Biblioklept International Headquarters. Wanting to compare the style of Harman’s translation to Edwin...
Literary Kicks, December 16, 2008
...encyclopedic but eclectic and satisfyingly intellectual sweep, ranging from Boudicca to Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Chris Farley to Franz Kafka to Tupac Shakur. Oxford American’s Writer’s Thesaurus by many contributors including Zadie Smith, the late...
The Millions, December 14, 2008
...been told. They are: 2666 by Roberto Bolano , Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust , The Castle by Franz Kafka , The Red and the Black by Stendhal , The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot , and All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy . More from A...
Get Your Book Red Here, December 5, 2008
...There’s a quote by Franz Kafka where he says “I f the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skulls, then why do we read it? “ ...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Past – Marcel Proust To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson Amerika – Franz Kafka The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway Blindness – Henry Green The Castle – Franz Kafka The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav...
