Franz Kafka

In 1984 the novelist Anita Brookner met ET at Bordighera. After their meeting, according to Templeton, they corresponded until the friendship was broken by Templeton's shock at discovering that Brookner had trained with Anthony Blunt

The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka 's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa and Edwin Muir

One story, Shell, draws from Kafka 's Metamorphosis, as an overweight single mother grows a shell and becomes a tortoise. Almost all of the stories focus on women, and the most optimistic concern...

Organized into thirty-four short chapters on ancient Greek love lyrics, this work is a scholarly analysis of eros as an elemental metaphysical structure of human life. In characteristically eccentric fashion, AC begins her study of...

AC 's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne , Samuel Beckett , Franz Kafka , an FBI report on Bertolt Brecht

Other texts that HC considers here are Franz Kafka 's Before the Law (a segment of The Trial), James Joyce 's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seven works...

Autumn centres around the intergenerational friendship of 32-year-old art-history lecturer Elisabeth Demand and her childhood neighbour, the clever and lively Daniel Gluck, now 101 years old and quietly existing in a care home. Through silent...

Critically, Rhys has been lauded as a modernist writer, a feminist writer, and, more recently, a postcolonial, Caribbean, or Creole writer. Biographer Carole Angier suggests that her preoccupation with exile was common in her time...

Critic Edward Wagenknecht , believing that the author's creative powers were at their peak at the very end of her life, compares the book's imaginative appeal to that of the German romanticists. He argues...

Anaïs Nin , in The Novel of the Future, pronounced AK 's Asylum Piece to be a classic equal to the work of Kafka .

MB was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain , Walter de la Mare , Compton Mackenzie , and Hugh Walpole , who...

Jonathan Lethem revisited Ice in the New York Times fifty years after it appeared, in advance of its anniversary re-issue as a Penguin classic. His notice opened arrestingly: Anna Kavan's Ice is book like the...

Thomas McCarthy wrote in the Cork Literary Review that this volume consolidates what is already an achieved and unique presence in Irish poetry. Her mind is astonishing—within her world Kafka dines comfortably with Vita Sackville-West .

During the early part of ICB 's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger...

WM had conceived and begun work on this novel by 1926, planning to set it in Montrose, her childhood town. She did not start working on it in earnest, however, until 1930...