Heide Hess and Peter Liebers, eds.: Arbeiten mit der Romantik heute

Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 1978. (Schriftenreihe des Präsidiums der Akademie der Künste: Sektion Literatur und Sprachpflege, Arbeitsheft 26), 165 p

Update on the Needs of Minnesota Indians. The Impact of FY1981-1982 Budget Cuts and Program Changes.

Prepared by the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, for the Office of Human Resources Planning, Minnesota Department of Energy, Planning and Development

On Reading Kafka\u27s Metamorphosis as a Masculine Narrative

A reader\u27s first reaction to Franz Kafka\u27s Metamorphosis ( Die Verwandlung, 1915) is often that it is a weird and crazy story and that anyone who wrote like that must have been somewhat less than normal. Those who have been exposed to it and other Kafka writing, in schools or on the cocktail circuit, have learned (been taught) to soften that judgment somewhat and see Kafka\u27s short story as illustrating the modern experience, exemplifying existentialism, or in more cynical moments have acknowledged familiarity with it and other examples of high culture as part of the packaging that is necessary in providing ourselves with status and the mark of being educated and “with it.” In this frame of mind we may admit that Gregor Samsa and other Kafka characters are typical in the sense that they are representative products of the mega-state and the impersonalism and bureaucracy of the corporate world, but probably only a very small number of readers see their daily lives reflected in Metamorphosis. If we identify at all with Kafka\u27s characters it is most likely only in rare and grotesque moments. Though possible, perhaps even characteristic, the Kafkaesque event, so we would like to believe, is not truly routine and normal, at least not in our own lives