After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Ch 8
Interrupting the Kafka novel for an Aldous Huxley interlude. This is a 1939 novel set in Los Angeles.
Sep 21, 2018•16 min
Texts for Nothing
Readings and rants.
Episodes
Chapter 7: "The Teacher"
The teacher offers K. a position as live-in janitor at the schoolhouse; Frieda pressures him into accepting. Starting salary: nothing a month. Talk about humiliating!
Oct 06, 2013•22 min
Chapter 6: "Second Conversation with the Landlady"
From her sickbed, Gardena the landlady explains to K. what a thrill it was to have been Klamm's mistress. Her "three mementos". How she met her husband, Hans, and opened the inn. K. resolves to confront Klamm as a "private individual".
Jul 17, 2013•35 min
Chapter 5: "At the Chairman's" (full)
K.'s audience with the bed-ridden but long-winded Chairman and his "insignificant" wife, Mizzi. Insight into the fascinating world of Kafka-esque bureaucracy at the Castle. The hyper-capable Italian clerk Sordini. K. gets flacked. "Nobody is keeping you here, but that still doesn't mean you're being thrown out."
Jul 12, 2013•43 min
Chapter 4: "First Conversation with the Landlady" (full)
K. and Frieda get busy; the landlady intervenes in their relationship and demands "assurances". What will Klamm say? K. makes a speech. (Finally joined the sound files together!)
Jul 12, 2013•30 min
Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 2)
I made a mistake reading the last line of the previous part, so I re-read the line at the beginning of this part.
Jul 09, 2013•16 min
Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 1)
K. scores a glimpse of the mysterious Klamm, as well as a sloppy hookup with Klamm's mistress, Frieda.
Jul 09, 2013•7 min
Ch 2 of THE CASTLE: "Barnabas" (full)
The plot of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE (translated by Mark Harman)thickens in Chapter Two as we meet Barnabas, Olga, and Amalia, and K. starts feeling uncomfortable.
Jul 05, 2013•42 min
Ch 1 of The Castle, tr Mark Harman, part 3 of 3
Listen to those fireworks! Happy birthday, America btw -- this chapter has a name. It's called "Arrival". Enjoy!
Jul 05, 2013•9 min
Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3
Listen to the fireworks!
Jul 05, 2013•11 min
The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1)
Check for Part 2!
Jul 05, 2013•24 min
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