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When the 'Metamorphosis' author died his friend Max Brod published his journals - cutting the parts he thought too personal. Now they're complete thanks to translator Ross Benjamin
3 Where concision is essential, the adjective comes into its own. Consider the role it must play in stage directions. This is an interesting intermediate genre, because the playwright’s directions remain invisible to the audience. Their function is to tell the theatre director how the characters should be envisaged. Every word must hit the mark with the brevity of a command. Take Schiller’s dramatis personae for Fiesco: andrea doria, Duke of Genoa, a venerable old man, eighty years of age, retaining the traces of a high spirit: the chief features in this char...