In 1925, exposure to the work of Paul Klee and Max Ernst had alerted him to the possibility that Western painting might not be a dead end, condemned to simply repeat reality.
The result was the darkly compelling story "The Judgment", in which the protagonist, Georg, obsessed with the figure of his father, as Kafka was, is at the end condemned by that father: "I sentence you to death by drowning".
By the end, condemned to death and awaiting execution, she had turned into a Hillary Clinton lookalike with a big blond ponytail, chic, wet-look black coat and shiny black high heels, though why remains an enigma.
The west has worked itself into a grotesque muddle in the Middle East, supporting dictatorships in some places, calling for others to end; condemning the killings of civilians in one place, in another condoning them.
After a trial that lasted nine months, the constitutional process has come to an end, condemning Dilma to the dustbin of history.
The difficulty with their position is that they end up condemning the peaceful political activism of Muslim groups, while downplaying and even excusing the violent modus operandi of racist and Islamophobic groups such as the EDL.
Regardless of whether we chose in the end to condemn or to defend the botched raid on the Mavi Marmara, for Jews the first reaction was shock, confusion, as we tried to get our heads around what appeared to be an unprecedented display of blockheadedness.
The king tore at his garments, but ended up condemning his own son and ordering him to be executed in the wilderness.
To focus on the sixties is fine, but, in arguing for that decade's centrality, the author ends up condemning both Mailer and Buckley to a kind of premature inconsequentiality, claiming that by the early seventies they were "calcified"; staying busy as "personalities" and writers, they "removed themselves from the pitch of battle, patron saints already".
They created a rating system for films that started at "harmless" and ended at "condemned", with the latter denoting a film that was a sin to watch.
