GSLL Colloquium: The (Wo)Man Who Vanished: Orson Welles’s Amerika.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
3pm – 5pm
MKNA 112
Davide Stimilli, Associate Professor
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
As part of my ongoing project on Franz Kafka and Orson Welles, I 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 on 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 stronger light on his and Kafka’s dark vision of America.
We hope you can join us!