British Book News. British Council.
(1958): 739
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Zadie Smith | Her subjects include George Eliot
's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston
, Franz Kafka
, Vonnegut
and Salinger
as cult figures, Roland Barthes
and Vladimir Nabokov
(pitted against each other as attacker and booster of... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Rebecca West | This series of essays grapples with the relation of the human will to religious and civil authority, as illustrated in various masterpieces of Western literature. British Book News. British Council. (1958): 739 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | Authors or politicians whom HA
wrote about in articles, reviews, or editions (excluding those essays reprinted in Men in Dark Times) include Konrad Adenauer
, W. H. Auden
, Wilhelm Dilthey
, Waldemar Gurian |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and Edwin Muir
published the first English translation of Franz Kafka
's unfinished novel The Castle (Die Schloss), six years after Kafka's death. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. under Kafka |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and her husband
published their third Kafka
translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | Willa
and Edwin Muir
published their translation of Kafka
's third unfinished novel, America. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 81, under Franz Kafka British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | A translation by both WM
and Edwin Muir
of Kafka
's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and her husband are credited with having introduced the English-reading public to Franz Kafka
(1883-1924), who wrote in German. In addition to translating his three unfinished novels and a number of his short stories... |
Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces, the next Kafka
translation by the Muirs, appeared in 1933. By the time they began this work they had increased their fees (after a considerable wrangle... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | The Muirs' next two Kafka
translations, A Country Doctor; Ein Landarzt (first translated by Vera Leslie
in 1945) and The Bucket Rider, appeared in 1962 and 1965 respectively. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 81, under Franz Kafka |
Textual Production | Harold Pinter | Pinter was highly productive as a writer of screenplays, beginning with The Servant in 1963. This film, adapted from a novella by Robin Maugham
and dealing with an employer (Dirk Bogarde
) who is... |
Textual Features | Brigid Brophy | There is a strong flavour of Kafka
about this comic parable both of a family and of a state. The royal family of Evarchia (somewhere in contemporary Middle or Eastern Europe) has an authoritarian father... |