Word: angst
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Critics of two cultures have pronounced Kafka's novels both "pre-fascist" and "proto-Communist" Freudians have found in them classical symptoms of angst; theologians have seen a cold and brilliant statement of Kierkegaard's "either/or" maxim and Karl Earth's "theology of crisis.'' And like Freud's, his name has become an easy tag, employed by essayists and parlor annotators: Kafkaesque now suggests the small man confronted by a high and nameless menace, the humble man, anxious to cause no trouble, who finds that his heart has withered, the defeated man who wanders...
Marvelous as they are, Swift's multiple voices do not sell themselves. Swift does that, as when he auditioned for the role of a pencil. The advertising man whose job it was to select the voice of the pencil had two ulcers flaring with Angst. Do or die, the ad man was determined to come up with the best pencil that ever gave a speech. He had already heard 50 human applicants, but none sounded like a pencil. "Can you do a pencil?" he said desperately as Swift-entered the room...
Letting Go, by Philip Roth. Page by page, because of the author's unmatched eye and ear, this novel of the university young is a delight. Taken as a whole, it is a tiresome analysis of the Angst of a conventionally world-weary hero...
...Eigerman writes smooth, rhythmic sentences; he had a flair for dialogue that builds his characters and has begun a tale that promises to be intriguing. Quite pleasantly, Heartboy does not smack of self-analysis; Eigerman has a story to tell and he tells it, without any unneeded verbiage or Angst...
Holden is not merely a sort of Penrod of the Angst age. He is more nearly a modern and urban Huckleberry Finn...