Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

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Página 122 - He thought of flies, their tiny limbs breaking as they struggle away from the fly-paper.' This mood of total impotence, of paralysis in the face of the unintelligible power of circumstances, informs all his work. Though the action of The Castle takes a different, even an opposite, direction to that of The Trial, this view of the world, from the perspective of a trapped and struggling fly, is all-pervasive. This experience, this vision of a world dominated by angst and of man at the mercy...
Página 29 - One of the goals of the collective novel is to give an objective, impressionistic view of both the individual and the group. Objectivity is perhaps best accomplished when the narrator disappears as much as possible as a direct commentator and makes only oblique intrusions; ie disappears behind the mask of his characters, so that it is almost impossible to distinguish between the voice of the narrator and the voice of the character. It is such oblique intrusion that permits us to "feel" individually,...
Página 41 - And that, do you see — that is the mighty secret of action and victory. It is the sum of the whole world's wisdom.
Página 78 - ... if Borge will shoot the first adult who comes along. He shoots an elderly lady — violence. He then lies to his mother and says that the whole affair was Jakob's fault — lying. Once again we are presented with two fundamental elements of Branner's stories of childhood: guilt and responsibility. and plot to steal her picture from the front window of a photography shop. Their adventure culminates at the police station, where they bravely confront the law: He said it with a sharp glitter in his...
Página 162 - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955), p.
Página 72 - ... good. Why do you act this way to us?" "I don't know," Katrine said. She would have liked to say something else, but she really didn't know what. She sat there tense like a strange animal in a strange forest. She wished he'd sing out, beat her and scold her, something harsh and decisive. But she knew he wouldn't do that, she knew it was coming now. He was already standing before her, strangely large and soft. She could smell his clothes. "Is it really the same to you if I take the birds away from...
Página 79 - You're part of the games I played as a boy. It's reality that is nonsense. Play is reality. We're going to play with each other, that's why we have each other.
Página 140 - But the revolution continued, until early on the morning of November 4 Russian artillery opened fire on Budapest and Soviet tanks entered the city.
Página 110 - Michael is the most problematic figure in the play, and his presence creates its central dramatic tension. He sees himself both as a Christ figure and as his namesake, the archangel Michael. To support this self-indulgent fantasy, he has become a compulsive liar. For example, he says that he once helped a woman commit suicide, and Irene then takes up her role as mediator by asking: IRENE: Are you telling the truth, Michael? MICHAEL: As I see it, yes. IRENE: Ah, but should we all see it so? Is it...
Página 12 - Consider, for example, the following passage in Scherfig's Det forsomte Foraar (1940): His mother lives in a rather large apartment in the East Station area. She was divorced from her husband when her son was a little boy in sailor's middy and knickers. And she kept the son. She has him yet. And she watches out for him and protects him from all evil influences. She watches over his health and welfare with touching care. And now you must eat, and now you must rest, and I've put out clean underwear...

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