Alan Bennett: Plays 2 : Kafka's Dick, the Insurance Man, the Old Country, an Englishman Abroad, a Question of Attribution (Faber Contemporary Classics) (v. 2)
by Alan Bennett
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Author: Alan BennettEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-06
ISBN: 0571194427
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Book Review: The Insurance Man's excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
I can only comment on the Insurance Man, which was made into one of the best films (for BBC TV I think) I've ever seen - portraying a late 19th/early 20th century manual worker's attempt to get compensation for an industrial disease from a nightmare Kafkaesque bureaucracy. Kafka himself emerges as the Insurance Man of the title at the end (this was in fact Kafka's day job, and his writings reflect the sinister world he lived in).
Whether this would work as a play I don't know, and it might be hard to read on paper, but it made a great film. I only wish I could get it on video (which was how I ended up here writing this review - I was searching the web for a video of the film).
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A second collection of Alan Bennett plays, including "Kafka's Dick", "The Insurance Man", "The Old Country", "An Englishman Abroad", and "A Question of Attribution".Movies Books
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