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Politzer spent 20 years with his study, and that was too long. But he is perceptive in ferreting out the "perplexing parables" of Kafka's style. Driven by visions of horror and forebodings of doom, Kafka's great obsession was man's alienation from himself, from other...
Joe Porter's acceptable story (he contributes two) he calls "The Devil Will Spank" which despite a lurid obsession with the imperfections in children's teeth and hair has its charming moments. I wish he would not pause so long to build up great tortuous heaps of detail before allowing...
If there is any pattern at all to this eccentric sequence of events, the key to it must be Dr. Adenauer's obsession with his political career. Whenever something threatens the Chancellor's reputation, or tries to influence the date of his retirement or his plans for a successor, it...
To Claudio Corti, 29, the Eiger was an obsession. An Italian truck driver who had had many brushes with death on mountains, he was "Ahab-like" in his determination to scale the Eiger's north wall, a 6,000-ft.-high slab of rock raked by avalanches and lashed...
The Vice of Virtue. The date of original publication might just as well have been 1934 B.C., since at the book's appearance Greene's present obsession with God and Guilt was still submerged. The rainwater in this novel is the gelid London variety; the central occurrence, around...