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Amerika (novel)
''Amerika'' (German working title ''Der Verschollene'', "The Missing"), also known as ''Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)'', ''Amerika: The Missing Person'' and ''Lost in America'', is the incomplete first novel by author Franz Kafka (1883–1924), written between 1911 and 1914 and published posthumously in 1927. The novel originally began as a short story titled "The Stoker". The novel incorporates many details of the experiences of his relatives who had emigrated to the United States. The commonly used title ''Amerika'' is from the edition of the text put together by Kafka's close friend, Max Brod, after Kafka's death in 1924. It has been published in several English-language versions, including as ''Amerika'', translated by Edwin and Willa Muir (1938); as ''Amerika (The Man Who Disappeared)'', translated by Michael Hofmann (1996); as ''Amerika: The Missing Person'', translated by Mark Harman (2008), as ''Lost in America'', translated by Anthony Northey (2010), and as ''The Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a novelist and writer from Prague who was Jewish, Austrian, and Czech and wrote in German. He is widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of Literary realism, realism and the fantastique, and typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surreal predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of social alienation, alienation, existential anxiety, guilt (emotion), guilt, and absurdity. His best-known works include the novella ''The Metamorphosis'' (1915) and the novels ''The Trial'' (1924) and ''The Castle (novel), The Castle'' (1926). The term '':en:wikt:Kafkaesque, Kafkaesque'' has entered the English lexicon to describe bizarre situations like those depicted in his writing. Kafka was born into a middle-class German- and Yiddish-speaking Czech Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, which b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Motif (narrative)
A motif ( ) is any distinctive feature or idea that recurs across a story; often, it helps develop other narrative elements such as theme or mood. A narrative motif can be created through the use of imagery, structural components, language, and other elements throughout literature. The flute in Arthur Miller's play '' Death of a Salesman'' is a recurrent sound motif that conveys rural and idyllic notions. Another example from modern American literature is the green light found in the novel '' The Great Gatsby'' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Narratives may include multiple motifs of varying types. In Shakespeare's play ''Macbeth'', he uses a variety of narrative elements to create many different motifs. Imagistic references to blood and water are continually repeated. The phrase "fair is foul, and foul is fair" is echoed at many points in the play, a combination that mixes the concepts of good and evil. The play also features the central motif of the washing of hands, on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Dejdar
Martin Dejdar (born 11 March 1965) is a Czech actor, writer, comedian, director, television presenter, producer and entertainer. Biography Dejdar was born on 11 March 1965. He was born in the hospital in Vysoké Mýto, but never lived there, grew up in Chrast and considers himself a native of Chrast. He graduated from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, from which he holds a Magister degree. Career Dejdar is known for his numerous starring roles both comedic and dramatic in theatre, television and film. A hard-working method actor known for his resolute devotion and research for his roles, Dejdar is considered to be one of the most prominent actors of his generation. Since his debut in 1979, he has amassed over one hundred television and film credits. His lead film roles in '' Why?'', ''Big Beat'' and ''The Manor'' made him a household name in the Czechoslovakia. He also portrayed Karl Rossmann in the Czech adaptation of Kafka's novel '' Amerika''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimír Michálek
Vladimír Michálek (born 2 November 1956 in Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech film director and screenwriter. Life Michálek graduated from Czech film Academy ''FAMU'', Prague, in 1992. Starting during his academic study he was filming documentaries. He joined the Barrandov Studios as assistant director, where he worked with Andrew Birkin ( Burning Secret), Reinhard Hauff, Ted Kotcheff ( The Shooter), Margarethe von Trotta and Bernhard Wicki. He has four children. Work 1994 was the year of the release of his first feature film, ''Amerika'', a free adaptation of the Kafka novel. In 1996 ''Forgotten Light'' followed, a film adaption of the Jakub Deml novel. The film ran on the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, as did this next movie, ''Sekal Has to Die'', two years later. The latter won ten Czech Lion awards, including Best Direction, and succeeded ''Forgotten Light'' as the Czech Oscar-nominee. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straub–Huillet
Jean-Marie Straub (; 8 January 1933 — 20 November 2022) and Danièle Huillet (; 1 May 1936 – 9 October 2006) were a duo of French filmmakers who made two dozen films between 1963 and 2006. Their films are noted for their rigorous, intellectually stimulating style and radical, communist politics. While both were French, they worked mostly in Germany and Italy. '' From the Clouds to the Resistance'' (1979) and '' Sicilia!'' (1999) are among the duo's best regarded works. Biography Straub, who was born in Metz, met Paris-born Huillet as a student in 1954. Straub was involved in the Parisian cinephile community at the time. He was friends with Francois Truffaut and contributed to his publication , although Truffaut refused to publish Straub's more inflammatory writings. He worked as an assistant to the film director Jacques Rivette on the 1956 film ''A Fool's Mate''. He also worked in Paris as an assistant to Abel Gance, Jean Renoir, Robert Bresson and Alexandre Astruc. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klassenverhältnisse
', known in English as ''Class Relations'', in French as ', is a 1984 film by the French filmmaking duo of Straub–Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet. It is based on Franz Kafka's unfinished first novel, ''Amerika (novel), Amerika''. The German filmmaker Harun Farocki appears as one of the leads, and the film also features a cameo from American experimental filmmaker Thom Andersen. Farocki made a documentary about the filming process, '. Plot The film closely follows the narrative of the novel, depicting the journey of Karl Rossmann, a young man who is sent to America by his parents. As soon as he boards the ship, he encounters a discontented stoker and intervenes in a dispute between the stoker and the ship's captain. To Karl's surprise, the ship's captain turns out to be his uncle, whom he barely knew existed. His uncle welcomes him into his home upon their arrival in America. However, Karl's situation takes a turn when he agrees to help a friend of his uncle's an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zbyněk Brynych
Zbyněk Brynych (13 June 1927 – 24 August 1995) was a Czech film director and screenwriter. He directed 30 films between 1951 and 1985. Selected filmography Czechoslovakia * '' Suburban Romance'' (1958) * ''Five in a Million'' (1959) * ''Skid'' (1960) * ''Every Penny Counts'' (1961) * ''Don't Take Shelter When It Rains!'' (1962) * ''Transport from Paradise'' (1962) * ''Constellation of the Virgo'' (1965) * '' The Fifth Horseman Is Fear'' (1965) * ''Transit Carlsbad'' (1966) * '' I, Justice'' (1968) Germany * '' Der Kommissar'' (1969–1970, TV series, 4 episodes) * ''Amerika, or The Man Who Disappeared'' (1969, TV film) — (based on '' Amerika'' by Franz Kafka) * ' (1970) * ' (1970) * ' (1970) * ''The Night in Lisbon'' (1971, TV film) — (based on '' The Night in Lisbon'' by Erich Maria Remarque) * ''Derrick'' (1975–1994, TV series, 37 episodes) * ''The Old Fox ''Der Alte'' ("The Old One" or "The Old Fox") is a German crime drama series created by Helmut Ringelman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Ferman
James Alan Ferman (11 April 1930 – 24 December 2002) was an American-British television and theatre director. While serving in the US Air Force, Ferman was stationed in Suffolk, England. He studied at Cambridge and went onto become a TV and film director. In 1975, he became the Secretary (later, the Director) of the British Board of Film Classification. He served in that role from 1975 to 1999Michael Brook"Ferman, James (1930-2002)" BFI screenonline page overseeing the classification of British films for more than 20 years and was variously criticised as being too harsh or too lenient. Early life and education Ferman was born on April 11, 1930, the son of a film director. ''Daily Telegraph'', 26 December 2002 He started at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre 625
''Theatre 625'' is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time. Overview Overall, about 110 plays were produced with a duration of usually between 75 and 90 minutes during the series' four-year run, and for its final year from 1967 the series was produced in colour, BBC2 being the first channel in Europe to convert from black and white.There is at least one exception to the 75-90-minute duration rule. ''David, Chapter 2'' (2.12), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production first broadcast there on 20 May 1963 is listed at 60 minutes duratiohere Some of the best-known productions made for the series include a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and Social criticism, social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John Dickens, John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After three years, he returned to school before beginning his literary career as a journalist. Dickens edited a weekly journal for 20 years; wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and nonfiction articles; lectured and performed Penny reading, readings extensively; was a tireless letter writer; and campaigned vigor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El País
(; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second-most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . is the most read newspaper in Spanish online and one of the Madrid dailies considered to be a national newspaper of record for Spain (along with '' El Mundo'' and '' ABC)''. In 2018, its number of daily sales were 138,000. Its headquarters and central editorial staff are located in Madrid, although there are regional offices in the principal Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Valencia, Bilbao, and Santiago de Compostela) where regional editions were produced until 2015. also produces a world edition in Madrid that is available online in English and in Spanish (Latin America). History was founded in May 1976 by a team at PRISA which included Jesus de Polanco, José Ortega Spottorno and Carlos Mendo. The paper was designed by Reinhard Gade and Julio Alonso. It wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marielyst
Marielyst is a small town and seaside resort some south of Nykøbing on the Danish island of Falster. Its long sandy beach has led to an extensive summer house development with some 6,000 holiday homes. As of 2024, it has a population of 656. Geography Marielyst is situated on the Baltic coast of Falster. At the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago, the melting ice left an long mound of clay, sand, and rocks extending from Idestrup to Gedser. Initially there were three islands, Langø, Bøtø, and Bøtø Fang, but these were later silted up. However, an inlet remained at Gedesby leading into the Bøtø Nor lake stretching 16 km from Sildestrup to Gedesby. Between 1860 and 1865, the inlet was closed, a dike was built, and the inland area was drained. Marielyst's white sand beach is the most western of those along the littoral zone of five countries. In a survey of ten Danish beaches carried out in 2011, Marielyst's beach, stretching no less than , came in first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
