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[Craig Clark]

"J." <jljackso at dimensional.com> writes:

> I don't think Kafka is funny on the big screen -- who was it that made a
> movie of _The Trial_?  I nearly died of boredom, heretical as that opinion
> may be -- though the book has much the same offhand mix of humor, social
> commentary, and an apprehension of meaninglessness (or something) that
> _Brazil_ does. 

It was, as I suspect J. knows, none other than the Kenosha Kid hisself,
ole Orson Welles, who filmed _The Trial_, and who seemed to be 
caught up in the stereotyping of Kafka as some kinda long-faced 
*serious* writer when he did so. It's a very beautiful film but 
lacking, IMHO, the humour of the novel.

Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"