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FRANZ KAFKA IN THE HAUS

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20021201
Author:REBECCA COLEMAN

Where else could you impersonate a dung beetle and fit in?

The Kafka Bash, of course.

At least 80 people packed the Goethe-Institut's meeting room last weekend, munching on apple struedel, Linzer tortes, and cookies with schlag (a kind of whipped cream), as well as downing Czech beer. The scene, with Lucienne Davidson playing Czech music on a lustrous black piano, was intended to affect the ambience of the Prague cafes Franz Kafka frequented in his youth.

About 20 from the audience braved the microphone, reading their favorite passages in English, German, Czech, and Russian. Douglas Siegel, a ...

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