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Rebecca Schuman and How to Study Kafka in East Berlin Without Really Trying
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Rebecca Schuman and How to Study Kafka in East Berlin Without Really Trying

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 / 28 February 2017

A review of Rebecca Schuman’s Schadenfreude, a Love Story, including some personal observations and self-identification that connect to a memoir with a really long title and lots of German words

Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks
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Max Richter: The Blue Notebooks

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 / 13 May 2015
If The Blue Notebooks was ever in danger of not being considered a classic, let this re-visitation be a way to cover our bases.
What Is Not Erased: Kafka and Lynch and Their Gift of Death
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What Is Not Erased: Kafka and Lynch and Their Gift of Death

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 / 4 February 2014
Eraserhead is very much of the same ilk as The Metamorphosis, and could be described to be a dark(er) twin of that novella.
‘The Castle’ Represents the Strange Subgenre of Kafkaesque Comic Books
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‘The Castle’ Represents the Strange Subgenre of Kafkaesque Comic Books

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 / 22 January 2014
Franz Kafka's The Castle, as adapted for the gridded page, is fittingly bleak and frustrating, if fascinating and engrossing.
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Orson Welles’ ‘The Trial’ Is a Study in Transcendental Sociology

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 / 7 November 2013
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Kafka Noir: ‘The Sickroom’ and ‘A Country Doctor’

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 / 2 February 2012
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Transforming the Metamorphosis

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 / 12 September 2011
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Between Church & State

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 / 1 September 2011
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It’s All Part of Der Process

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 / 3 December 2008