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Title: Klopstock, or the Distant Sound
Author: Robert Cohen
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-17-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
In 1924, hoping to cure his illness, Franz Kafka traveled to a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, run by a Dr. Hugo Hoffman. He would spend his last days there. In Robert Cohens story, we see the end of Kafkas life through Dr. Hoffmans eyes. The doctor attempts to decipher the dying mans enigmatic communications, scribbled on scraps of paper, while being harried by Kafkas friend, Klopstock, and a young woman who has fallen in love with the then-unknown writer. As the case progresses, the once-practical and upstanding doctor gets pulled deeper and deeper into his strange patient's world.
Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.
Members Reviews:
Kafka's last days as seen by his doctor
I loved this story, set in the sanatorium near Vienna where Franz Kafka died in 1924. The prose is beautiful, the pace somehow both leisurely & strained as the characters & the reader wait for the young writer, referred to here only as "the patient in room twelve," to die. Robert Cohen's made a really interesting & effective choice to have Kafka's doctor narrate the story. The doctor knows nothing of the fame that will come to Kafka after his death, and that very ignorance somehow humanizes everyone in the story. The piece reminded me a little of "Errand," Raymond Carver's terrific story about the death of Chekhov. Reading this has also made me want to check out the other "Ploughshares Solos" pieces -- it's very cool how this digital format might open the way to publication for more long-ish short stories.
Boring
Although this story was about Franz Kafka staying in the sanitarium towards the end of his days (before he is well know and famous), I found this story (told from the Dr.'s perspective) to be quite boring and tedious. I found the author's prose to be quite good but I started skimming the pages about 40% into it just because I was SOOOOO bored. It jumped all over the place and had a few too many smaller plots that made this read too jarring.
An interesting story
Somewhat an epic accounting of a man's final days, but I found it hard to concentrate on the details. I did read it to the end, but had trouble following the story line. I think I might need to read it again to understand it better, but I'm not ready to do that yet.
Dark
It is very interesting, I didn't know this happened, but, as everything related to Kafka, I found it a little dark.
Good book for Kafka lovers
Klopstock, or The Distnnt Sound
Was very strange. Perhaps because it written from a very different viewpoint than expected. Author or publisher should give a better understanding of the "story.
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Title: Klopstock, or the Distant Sound
Author: Robert Cohen
Narrator: Bronson Pinchot
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-17-14
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
In 1924, hoping to cure his illness, Franz Kafka traveled to a sanatorium in Kierling, Austria, run by a Dr. Hugo Hoffman. He would spend his last days there. In Robert Cohens story, we see the end of Kafkas life through Dr. Hoffmans eyes. The doctor attempts to decipher the dying mans enigmatic communications, scribbled on scraps of paper, while being harried by Kafkas friend, Klopstock, and a young woman who has fallen in love with the then-unknown writer. As the case progresses, the once-practical and upstanding doctor gets pulled deeper and deeper into his strange patient's world.
Ploughshares, the literary magazine of Emerson College.
Members Reviews:
Kafka's last days as seen by his doctor
I loved this story, set in the sanatorium near Vienna where Franz Kafka died in 1924. The prose is beautiful, the pace somehow both leisurely & strained as the characters & the reader wait for the young writer, referred to here only as "the patient in room twelve," to die. Robert Cohen's made a really interesting & effective choice to have Kafka's doctor narrate the story. The doctor knows nothing of the fame that will come to Kafka after his death, and that very ignorance somehow humanizes everyone in the story. The piece reminded me a little of "Errand," Raymond Carver's terrific story about the death of Chekhov. Reading this has also made me want to check out the other "Ploughshares Solos" pieces -- it's very cool how this digital format might open the way to publication for more long-ish short stories.
Boring
Although this story was about Franz Kafka staying in the sanitarium towards the end of his days (before he is well know and famous), I found this story (told from the Dr.'s perspective) to be quite boring and tedious. I found the author's prose to be quite good but I started skimming the pages about 40% into it just because I was SOOOOO bored. It jumped all over the place and had a few too many smaller plots that made this read too jarring.
An interesting story
Somewhat an epic accounting of a man's final days, but I found it hard to concentrate on the details. I did read it to the end, but had trouble following the story line. I think I might need to read it again to understand it better, but I'm not ready to do that yet.
Dark
It is very interesting, I didn't know this happened, but, as everything related to Kafka, I found it a little dark.
Good book for Kafka lovers
Klopstock, or The Distnnt Sound
Was very strange. Perhaps because it written from a very different viewpoint than expected. Author or publisher should give a better understanding of the "story.