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TIME MAKES KAFKA EVEN MORE RELEVANT AUTHOR SEEMINGLY PREDICTED CURRENT CULTURE.(EDITORIAL)

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From: The Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Date: 20060120
Author:Stockinger, Jacob

Byline: Jacob Stockinger The Capital Times

What differences do 40 years -- spanning JFK to W -- bring to my understanding of the German writer Franz Kafka?

That's the question I found myself asking as I reread a number of important works by Kafka (1881-1924) for the first time since I was an undergraduate in the 1960s.

I reread "The Trial," "The Metamorphosis," "A Hunger Artist" and "In the Penal Colony" -- all in preparation for this Sunday's free public showing of Orson Welles' 1963 film of "The Trial" at 1:30 p.m. in the Wisconsin Historical Society headquarters, ...

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