Associate Professor of German, Davide Stimilli will present his work, The (Wo)Man Who Vanished: Orson Welles’s Amerika, at a colloquium on Wednesday October 28, at 3:30 p.m. in McKenna 112.
This is part of Professor Stimilli’s on-going project on Franz Kafka and Orson Welles. He will discuss the relationship between Welles’s classic noir The Lady from Shanghai and Kafka’s unfinished American novel, The Man Who Vanished. At least one critic has commented upon the more eye-catching similarities between the protagonists of these two masterpieces, but nobody has thus far relied on Welles’s original script to shed some light on his and Kafka’s dark vision of America.
Refreshments will be served.