In the following review, Turan offers a negative assessment of Kafka, calling it a disappointing second film.
Imagine Franz Kafka as the Columbo of Prague, scuttling hither and yon, trying to solve...
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When I read a good book—any good book, but especially a biography—I can’t help but suspect that its author is a charming person: a witty raconteur with, at bottom, a good heart. I...
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When I read a good book—any good book, but especially a biography—I can’t help but suspect that its author is a charming person: a witty raconteur with, at bottom, a good heart. I...
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Prague (dpa) - When taking their seats at an Ostrava-based theatre
to see a brand new show on Friday night, spectators will surely look
around.
They will undo...
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Prague (dpa) - When taking their seats at an Ostrava-based theatre
to see a brand new show on Friday night, spectators will surely look
around.
They will undo...
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Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Alfred A. Knopf, 436 pages, $25.95.This is the way these things happen, don't ask why. Nakata has a mind that...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ago...
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I ought to be writing about Thomas Pynchon. His gargantuan new novel. But I’ve lost confidence in Mr. Pynchon, who hasn’t written a good book since Gravity’s Rainbow, 33 years ag...
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Prague (dpa) - Prague is a strange city for Jan Faktor, a Prague-
born Czech author who resides in Berlin and writes in German.
"I won't understand everything that i...
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Critical Review by Kenneth Turan
Dreary Digressions Drag Kafka Through Five Long Years
