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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 James Joyce: Ulysses
- Season 1 Joseph Conrad: The Secret Agent
- Season 1 Fyodor Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment'
- Season 1 Marcel Proust: A la recherche du temps perdu
- Season 1 Thomas Mann: The Magic Mountain
- Season 1 Henrik Ibsen: The Master Playwright
- Season 1 Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
- Season 1 Luigi Pirandello: In Search of an Author
- Season 1 T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
- Season 1 Franz Kafka: The Trial
- Season 1 Ten Great Writers: The Seminar
The Modern World: Ten Great Writers - Season 1 Episode 10 Franz Kafka: The Trial
0.00 48 minutes A suppressor of his own writings, Franz Kafka even requested that upon his death all his extant works be destroyed—yet those very works accurately prefigured the anxieties and alienation so commonly associated with the latter part of the 20th century. This program delves into Kafka’s fictional world, primarily through a gripping dramatization of The Trial, a combination of simple tale and complex parable describing Joseph K.’s bizarre arrest and execution. Professor George Steiner, of Geneva University, sheds light on the wellsprings of Kafka’s disturbingly prescient vision.
