Interrupting the Kafka novel for an Aldous Huxley interlude. This is a 1939 novel set in Los Angeles.
21 September 2018, 8:14 am
21 minutes 53 seconds
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!
6 October 2013, 2:01 am
34 minutes 40 seconds
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".
17 July 2013, 6:44 pm
43 minutes 25 seconds
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."
12 July 2013, 6:02 pm
29 minutes 55 seconds
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!)
12 July 2013, 5:31 pm
15 minutes 59 seconds
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.
9 July 2013, 6:03 pm
6 minutes 36 seconds
Chapter 3: "Frieda" (part 1)
K. scores a glimpse of the mysterious Klamm, as well as a sloppy hookup with Klamm's mistress, Frieda.
9 July 2013, 5:35 pm
41 minutes 36 seconds
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.
5 July 2013, 3:58 am
8 minutes 49 seconds
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!
5 July 2013, 2:30 am
11 minutes
Ch 1 of THE CASTLE, tr Mark Harman, part 2 of 3
Listen to the fireworks!
5 July 2013, 2:10 am
23 minutes 57 seconds
The Castle, by Franz Kafka (tr Mark Harman) Ch 1 (part1)