Kafka's The Trial (In Our Time)
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Franz Kafka's novel of power and alienation 'The Trial', in which readers follow the protagonist Joseph K into a bizarre, nightmarish world in which he stands accused of an unknown crime; courts of interrogation convene in obscure tenement buildings; and there seems to be no escape from a crushing, oppressive bureaucracy. Kafka was a German-speaking Jew who lived in the Czech city of Prague, during the turbulent years which followed the First World War. He spent his days working as a lawyer for an insurance company, but by night he wrote stories and novels considered some of the high points of twentieth century literature. His explorations of power and alienation have chimed with existentialists, Marxists, psychoanalysts, postmodernists - and Radio 4 listeners, who suggested this as our topic for listener week on In Our Time. GUESTS Elizabeth Boa, Professor Emerita of German at the University of Nottingham Steve Connor, Grace 2 Professor of English at the University of Cambridge Ritchie Robertson, Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature at the University of Oxford Producer: Luke Mulhall.
Видео Kafka's The Trial (In Our Time) канала BBC Podcasts
Видео Kafka's The Trial (In Our Time) канала BBC Podcasts
Показать
Комментарии отсутствуют
Информация о видео
Другие видео канала
The Arabian Nights (In Our Time)Miracles (In Our Time)Cleopatra (In Our Time)Understanding The Trial by Franz Kafka with Jason Reza JorjaniFranz Kafka: Chronicler of DarknessPhenomenology (In Our Time)Game Theory (In Our Time)In Our Time: S21/18 Samuel Beckett (Jan 17 2019)Hamlet (In Our Time)Zen (In Our Time)The Jesuits (In Our Time)The Greek Myths (In Our Time)Chaos Theory (In Our Time)Schopenhauer (In Our Time)LITERATURE: Franz KafkaBabylon (In Our Time)Anarchism (In Our Time)Franz Kafka's "The Trial" (1987)Animal Farm (In Our Time)