Schedule
Week 1: Introduction. Videos "Kafka's
Prague." Kafka, The Bucket Rider, Hermann Grab, The
Taxi Driver. Discussion of Prague's
Kafka statue.
Week
2: Reading: Franz Kafka, The Trial, p. 3-110; After
reading p. 3-32, read Bridgewater and Kafka's
Letter to His Father
Week
3: Finish Kafka; read Beck, Kafka and Judaism and Kafka and the Kabbala
Week
4: Bohumil Hrabal, I Served the King of England; Guest speaker, Peter
Rafaeli, Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic - Philadelphia:
"What it was like in Slovakia under both the clerico-fascist wartime state
and under communism."
Week
5: Finish Hrabal, MT Exam
Week
6: Start Péter Esterházy, The
Book of Hrabal
Week
7: Finish Esterházy; excerpts
from Letters from Exile
Week
8: Egon Hostovsky, The Midnight Patient;
"Mr. Lorenz" (from The Lonely Rebels)
Week
9: Finish Egon Hostovsky, The Midnight
Patient; start Capek, An
Ordinary Life
Week
10: finish Karel Capek, An Ordinary Life
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