Author: Alan BennettPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573692093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Kafka's Dick
Author: Alan BennettPublisher: Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN: 9780573692093
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Cabbaged
Author: Sue BrownPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 132602986X
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Cassie remains in therapy along with Alan and Alicia Afterbirth. A small band of barking mad souls who meet every Wednesday at the local NHS Crumpled Clinic. Pete is still pissed and Mary is now digging in her dahlias with a dildo as she freefalls into the darkness that is dementia. Life eh?
Two Kafka Plays
Author: Alan BennettTheatre Record
Author: Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life
Author: James HawesPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1429988835
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Everybody knows the face of Franz Kafka, whether they have read any of his works or not. And that brooding face carries instant images: bleak and threatening visions of an inescapable bureaucracy, nightmarish transformations, uncanny predictions of the Holocaust. But while Kafka's genius is beyond question, the image of a mysterious, sickly, shadowy figure who was scarcely known in his own lifetime bears no resemblance to the historical reality. Franz Kafka was a popular and well-connected millionaire's son who enjoyed good-time girls, brothels, and expensive porn, who landed a highly desirable state job that pulled in at least $90,000 a year in today's dollars for a six-hour day, who remained a loyal member of Prague's German-speaking Imperial elite right to the end, and whose work was backed by a powerful literary clique. Here are some of the prevalent Kafka myths: *Kafka was the archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime. *Kafka was lonely. *Kafka was stuck in a dead-end job, struggling to find time to write. *Kafka was tormented by fear of sex. *Kafka was unbendingly honest about himself to the women in his life – too honest. *Kafka had a terrible, domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs. *Kafka's style is mysterious and opaque. *Kafka takes us into bizarre worlds. James Hawes wants to tear down the critical walls which generations of gatekeepers---scholars, biographers, and tourist guides---have built up around Franz Kafka, giving us back the real man and the real significance of his splendid works. And he'll take no prisoners in the process.
Franz Kafka
Author: Stanley CorngoldPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810127695
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
"It is widely acknowledged that Kafka's daytime occupation as a specialist in industrial accident insurance contributed in a significant way to his fiction. Corngold and Wagner frame Kafka's writings as cultural events, each work reflecting the economic and cultural discourses of his epoch. In pursuing Kafka's avowed interest in the theory and practice of insurance, the authors view the two systems of his literary worlds--the official and the personal--as a "bundling" together of the various cultural accidents of Kafka's time. The work of two of the leading scholars of the single most influential writer of literary modernity, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine constitutes a breathtakingly original advance in the study of both the more famous and less well-known works of this enigmatic master."--From publisher description.
London Theatre Record
Author: German-Language Nature Writing from Eighteenth Century to the Present
Author: Gabriele DürbeckPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031509102
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia
Author: Richard T. GrayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313061424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Alan Bennett
Author: Joseph O'MealyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135697620
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Alan Bennett is perhaps best known in the UK for the BBC production of his Talking Heads TV plays, while the rest of the world may recognize him for the film adaptation of his play, The Madness of King George. O'Mealy points out that Bennett is a social critic strongly influenced by Beckett and Swift, interested in depicting and analyzing the role playing of everyday life, a'la sociologist Ervin Goffman.