Re: Kafka's "The Trial"


Subject: Re: Kafka's "The Trial"
From: Paul Kennedy (kennedyp@toronto.cbc.ca)
Date: Thu Mar 23 2000 - 16:40:47 EST


OK, who's going to start the continuity cock-ups compendium?

> Buddy says
>Seymour is one of the "four dead men ... or underadjusted bachelors"
>who will appear in the pages of the story -- this, shortly before
>he says, on p. 106, that Seymour killed himself while on vacation
>with his wife?
>
>More trouble with that malfunctioning typewriter? A bachelor of the
>soul? Or an overly picky reader at work here?
>
>--tim
>

Surely this little nugget had to make its way through countless copy editors
(at several publishers--not to mention the notorious fact-checking
department at The New Yorker, where bachelors and husbands ought to have to
sit on different benches altogether).... A friend of mine published a novel
in which she had a character jump into a little red sportscar and drive west
from Vancouver. This is not advisable!

Cheers,

Paul

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