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The first is Kafka\u2019s visit to the mystical philosopher, Rudolf Steiner, at the time that Steiner was in Prague delivering a series of lectures on the subject of An Occult Physiology. The second is Kafka\u2019s platonic and highly idealized love affair with a young Italian girl during his ten-day stay at the von Hartungen Sanatorium in Riva. In reinventing these two incidents, Palermo Stevenson juxtaposes the real and the imagined, connecting them with Kafka\u2019s bleakly self-reflective vision of his life and the foreshadowing in his work of a coming evil that could not be held back. The result is a poetic prose narrative that is deeply interior and at the same time darkly historical.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"sm_text\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\"From the opening paragraph you will know this book is something special.<\/p>\r\n\"Rosalind Palermo Stevenson has used two actual incidents in the life of the legendary existentialist writer, Franz Kafka, to frame this memorable work of fiction. In March of 1911, Kafka visited the mystical philosopher, Rudolf Steiner in Prague. There, in Stevenson\u2019s story, we encounter a typical Kafka conundrum: <em>\u201cI was faced with a dilemma: it was where to place the hat I had removed from my head.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Kafka\u2019s resolution gives us our first insight into the man and sets the tone of what\u2019s to follow. This visit to Steiner and Steiner\u2019s writings and philosophy are laced throughout the main story of Kafka\u2019s 1913 stay at the von Hartungen sanatorium in Riva where he actually met and fell in love with a young Christian woman he calls, W.\r\n\r\n\"Throughout this short volume (20 pages) the author intersperses the real and the imagined to create an early 20th century dreamscape. Stevenson\u2019s spare and poetic prose \u2013 <em>\u201cI have put up the oars so we can drift, we are the only boaters on the lake, drifting; imperceptible movement\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 her masterful use of sentence fragments, and her wonderful descriptions \u2013 a folded shawl, oars that sit stiffly at the bottom of a boat \u2013 swept me up in this story and kept me there to the end.\r\n\r\n\"There\u2019s a lot to get into here. First and foremost is the heartwarming relationship between Kafka and W, a mutual love confined by both the social mores of the day \u2013 <em>\u201cThe desire to let my cheek come to rest against hers\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 and Kafka\u2019s struggle between his outward life and his internal, self-reflective interests. The story is a wonderful tribute to Franz Kafka. You know and like this man in spite of his dark perspective and feelings of being an outsider. The story also foreshadows the evil that will soon overrun Europe and ultimately result in the Holocaust.\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\"I encourage you to take an hour, find a quiet place and sit down and read this jewel of a book. Then read it again. You will be glad you did.\"<\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u2014Russell Reece from <em>Fox Chase Review<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-793\" src=\"https:\/\/rainmountainpress.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Rosalind-Palermo-Stevenson-headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Rosalind Palermo Stevenson\" width=\"200\" height=\"250\" \/>Rosalind Palermo Stevenson<\/strong> is the author of the novella \u201cInsect Dreams\u201d (<em>Rain Mountain Press<\/em>\u00a02007). Her fiction appears in the anthologies \u201cPoe\u2019s Children\u201d (<em>Random House<\/em>\u00a02008, edited by Peter Straub); \u201cWild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana,\u201d (<em>Fordham University Press<\/em>\u00a02008, edited by Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman); and, Trampoline (<em>Small Beer Press<\/em>\u00a02005, edited by Kelly Link). Her fiction and prose poems also appear in many literary journals including\u00a0<em>Web Conjunctions, First Intensity, Italian Americana, Spinning Jenny, Skidrow Penthouse, River City, Washington Square, and Phantasmagoria,\u00a0<\/em>among others. She has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and her short story \u201cThe Guest,\u201d was awarded the IAWA fiction prize for Italian-American writing, and was selected as\u00a0<em>Italian Americana<\/em>\u2019s best story of 2005. 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