All of a Tremble
David Trotter: Kafka at the pictures, 4 March 2004
Kafka Goes to the Movies
by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie.
Chicago, 143 pp., £21, January 2003,0 226 98671 3 Show More
by Hanns Zischler, translated by Susan Gillespie.
Chicago, 143 pp., £21, January 2003,
“... His name was Franz Kafka, and he quite often went to the movies. Some such statement constitutes both the basis of Kafka Goes to the Movies and its primary impediment: the rock it has to roll up the hill. According to Max Brod, his lifelong friend and first editor and biographer, Kafka loved the movies; at times, Brod reported, he would talk about little else ... ”