Anthony Thorlby (1928–2013)
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- 1928
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- Tonbridge School
University of Cambridge - Berufe
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- Tony Thorlby, who died on 21st December 2013 at the age of 85, was the first Professor of Comparative Literature at the University. He was educated at Tonbridge School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages and was taught by the great Germanist, Erich Helle. He then went to Yale where in 1953 he was awarded a PhD for a thesis on ‘Fatality in Four Novels of the Nineteenth Century’. He learned Russian during his National Service in the famous Joint Services School of Linguists, where Michael Frayn and Alan Bennett, as well as our own George Craig and Peter France, were also enrolled. D. M. Thomas, who was a contemporary, has written: “On my course the obvious leader—older, sophisticated, handsome, with a PhD,—a kind of admired Steerforth—was one A. K. Thorlby, later a distinguished academic. One felt he was on easy terms with the tutors and I envied him his air of insouciant superiority.”
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If this is a students guide to Kafka, shouldn't it be easier to understand? Shouldn't it be a book in which you read after one of Kafka's work to understand it better and to take more meaning from it? Instead, this "students guide" only serves as a source of stress and sleepiness, because every time i stopped to read it, I couldn't get through it, I thought I could finish in one sitting, after all it is 100 pages long, right? But no, I couldn't sit down and read even 6 pages of it without my eyelids closing completely. I hate it that a professor of sorts decided to make a student's guide, and then it went to become this utter nonsense of a "book", the whole purpose of something being a student's guide, is to guide the student and make them understand the original piece better, instead this only left questions and stress on me, better leave the student's to make a guide for themselves instead of an old fart that had school when, like 30 years ago?
I hated reading this piece of shit book. The only good thing about it are the parts in which he tells more about Kafka, because in that way, he cant clutter the paragraphs with nonsense, he has to be objective and through, however, retelling Kafka's biography isn't really something difficult, anyone can search it and do it, I would even say... a student.… (mehr)