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  1. After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Ch 8

    09/21/2018

    After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Ch 8

    Interrupting the Kafka novel for an Aldous Huxley interlude. This is a 1939 novel set in Los Angeles.

    16 min
  2. Chapter 7: "The Teacher"

    10/06/2013

    Chapter 7: "The Teacher"

    The teacher offers K. a position as live-in janitor at the schoolhouse; Frieda pressures him into accepting. Starting salary: nothing a month. Talk about humiliating!

    22 min

  3. 07/17/2013

    Chapter 6: "Second Conversation with the Landlady"

    From her sickbed, Gardena the landlady explains to K. what a thrill it was to have been Klamm's mistress. Her "three mementos". How she met her husband, Hans, and opened the inn. K. resolves to confront Klamm as a "private individual".

    35 min

  4. 07/12/2013

    Chapter 5: "At the Chairman's" (full)

    K.'s audience with the bed-ridden but long-winded Chairman and his "insignificant" wife, Mizzi. Insight into the fascinating world of Kafka-esque bureaucracy at the Castle. The hyper-capable Italian clerk Sordini. K. gets flacked. "Nobody is keeping you here, but that still doesn't mean you're being thrown out."

    43 min

  5. 07/12/2013

    Chapter 4: "First Conversation with the Landlady" (full)

    K. and Frieda get busy; the landlady intervenes in their relationship and demands "assurances". What will Klamm say? K. makes a speech. (Finally joined the sound files together!)

    30 min

  6. 07/09/2013

    Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 2)

    I made a mistake reading the last line of the previous part, so I re-read the line at the beginning of this part.

    16 min

  7. 07/09/2013

    Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 1)

    K. scores a glimpse of the mysterious Klamm, as well as a sloppy hookup with Klamm's mistress, Frieda.

    7 min

  8. 07/05/2013

    Ch 2 of THE CASTLE: "Barnabas" (full)

    The plot of Franz Kafka's THE CASTLE (translated by Mark Harman)thickens in Chapter Two as we meet Barnabas, Olga, and Amalia, and K. starts feeling uncomfortable.

    42 min

  9. 07/05/2013

    Ch 1 of The Castle, tr Mark Harman, part 3 of 3

    Listen to those fireworks! Happy birthday, America btw -- this chapter has a name. It's called "Arrival". Enjoy!

    9 min
  10. Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3

    07/05/2013

    Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3

    Listen to the fireworks!

    11 min
  11. The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1)

    07/05/2013

    The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1)

    Check for Part 2!

    24 min
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