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• The Man Who Disappeared by Franz Kafka – review

  
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  A new translation of Kafkas first, unfinished novel is strong on social comedy and satire Set aside in 1912, never to be completed, The Man Who Disappeared (1927) was Kafkas first novel, originally published under the title Amerika , as opposed to the authors choice, Der Verschollene , used for this new ...
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• Have high school literature classes retrogressed?

  
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  The verdict is in from NPR :  young people read crap.   Another story from the same source:  audiences have lost their manners .  Yes, apparently NPR is so starved for news that it now imposing its judgment on middlebrow commuters across the land:  the world is going to hell in a handbasket.  Lynn Neary’s ...
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• “I feel like I’ve swallowed a cloudy sky” ~ Haruki Murakami, from Sputnik Sweetheart

  
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  “Sometimes moods of indescribable anguish, sometimes moments when the veil of time and fatality of circumstances seemed to be torn apart for an instant.” ~Vincent Van Gogh Wednesday afternoon. Sunny and hot, 88 degrees. (Forewarning: It’s long and rambling) A day filled with sadness for several reasons. Jake was ...
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• Its worse when nobodys listening

  
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  Im going to assume readers are familiar with the whole fracas surrounding the revelation that the government is doing more-or-less exactly what everybody (should have) assumed the PATRIOT Act and FISA re-authorizations of the past decade allowed them to do .  I dont want to get into a recapitulation of the whole ...
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• A Bibliophile’s Miscellany: Books on Music

  
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  When I was nine years old my parents gave me a choice between playing the violin, starting Spanish lessons, or taking karate classes. Can you guess which one I picked? Alas, not music. I chose karate – a no-brainer for a tomboy with ‘cool’ friends to impress – but stuck with it for only a [...] The post A ...
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• A Lost Classic: Hunger by Knut Hamsun

  
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  It’s uncertain where the term “starving artist” originates, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find it attributable, at least in part, to the 1890 novel Hunger by Knut Hamsun. Hamsun’s unnamed narrator is a high-minded writer with a strong sense of destiny: he’s meant to write brilliant, canonical treatises on ...
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• “I can’t feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.” ~ Franz Kafka, from Letters To Milena

  
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  “And what were they anyway, sprigs of grass, things of blue? For a long time I wanted to use words, then didn’t.” ~ Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey Friday early evening, 80 degrees. Tropic Storm Andrea warning in effect. I know. I know. The time between real posts seems to stretch on inexorably. […]
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• Tina Brock And Her Absurd Theater Company Take On Kafka

  
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  Nobody told Tina Brock that starting a theater company was going to be this way. The Idiopathicridiculopathy Consortium , producing Kafka’s The Castle at the 2013 Fringe Festival, did not go through the typical track that many theater companies go through: clicking with like-minds at school, then building a ...
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• One point O 2004 – also called Paranoia: 1.0, Virus 1.0, One Point Zero – a lot of names

  
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  Simon (Jeremy Sisto) is a milk addicted computer programmer who’s a bit jumpy – a lot more suspicious that normal people would be. He lives in an awful apartment, in an awful building, has strange neighbors ( Udo Kier , Deborah Unger, Lance Henriksen, Bruce Payne) and they’re all living in this weird and dark ...
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• “All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog.” ~ Franz Kafka

  
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  Me. Now . . .                     “When you feel perpetually unmotivated, you start questioning your existence in an unhealthy way; everything becomes a pseudo intellectual question you have no interest in responding whatsoever. This whole process becomes your very skin and it does not merely ...
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• “All Our Figments and Alogisms” | The Kafkaesque, Borgesian, Phildickian Worlds of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky

  
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  At some point I acquired the notion, probably a fair one, that comparing writers to other writers is critically lazy. At the same time, writers write after other writers, through other writers, to other writers, against other writers, in other writers, out of other writers, on top of other writers, and so on. ...
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• Is Reading Selfish?

  
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  I recently discovered a kindred spirit in Maureen Corrigan, author of Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. As a Georgetown professor and book reviewer for NPR’s “Fresh Air” program, Corrigan is lucky enough to make a living by reading and then writing (and talking) about what ...
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• On Rectification

  
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  Kafka liked to have his watch an hour and a half fast. Felice kept setting it right. Nonetheless for five years they almost married. He made a list of arguments for and against marriage, including inability to bear the assault of his own life (for) and the sight of the nightshirts laid out on his parents’ beds at ...
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• The Castrating Shadow of Saint Garta

  
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  There is a lot of literature on what is literature that I ignore buying for my anti-library. What I enjoy is the user manuals: the novelists talking about the novel, talking about the history of the novel. The novel is a passage towards truth. Some areas are dark, others semi or well-lit, there are novels [...]
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• Doodles by Famous Writers

  
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  An online gallery compiled by FlavorwireDoodles from the journal of Sylvia PlathFrom Flavorwire: ‘Sylvia Plath liked to doodle in her diaries, creating illustrations of her life, her dreams, and in this case, her nightmare about being chased by a hot dog and a marshmallow.’ [Read More]Also at A Piece of ...
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• Le voci della metamorfosi, prove pubbliche di trasformazione artistica

  
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  Per la rassegna Teatro Impossibile, Papalagi e Associazione A.E.D.O. al Teatro Colombo con uno spettacolo sulla possibilità di redenzione dalla sofferenza che circonda l’uomo. L’introduzione di Mario Betti (direttore del Centro di Salute Mentale di Fornaci ma anche ottimo interprete della serata), che ha ...
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• Two for Tuesday – Kafka

  
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  Introducing Reiner Stach’s acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka from Princeton University Press. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) was an influential writer of the 20th century and Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never ...
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• Chapman brothers to film adaptation of The Marriage of Reason and Squalor

  
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  Funding for screen version of Jake Chapmans 2008 novel, written and directed by the artist brothers, to be secured from the art world The Chapman brothers, Jake and Dinos , are to become the latest British artists to transfer their work to the world of film with a planned feature-length adaptation of Jakes debut ...
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