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                    [ArticleID] => 1378220
                    [Title] => Israeli library's manuscripts tell unique stories
                    [Summary] => 

These are treasures that Israel doesn't allow anyone to check out of its national library.

[DatePublished] => 2014-10-09 07:14:52 [ColumnID] => 0 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1243240 [AuthorName] => Daniel Estrin [SectionName] => World [SectionUrl] => world [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 806205 [Title] => Delving into the soul of the vermin [Summary] =>

Joan A. Raguindin, 25, lives in Pampanga and got her arts and literature degree from University of the Cordilleras. She’s a freelance writer of poems, songs and plays and is currently working on a novel. She also paints and collects dolls, clocks and “owl accessories.”

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1390937 [AuthorName] => Joan A. Raguindin [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 612279 [Title] => My back pages [Summary] =>

My niece dislikes Kafka and considers his short story, “The Metamorphosis” weird if not totally unconvincing.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135989 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1308998 [AuthorName] => Erwin T. Romulo [SectionName] => Young Star [SectionUrl] => young-star [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 331885 [Title] => Transformer [Summary] => The very first book I ever bought with my own money (no, not counting colossal, ponderous textbooks required in school) was Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. I scrimped and saved just to buy that Bantam edition – a green paperback with a German Expressionist painting on the cover (Max Beckman’s jarring "Family Picture").

I bought it, stared at the cover for several minutes, found a quiet nook in our crumbling Usher-like house, and lost myself in the absurd universe of Gregor Samsa who one day wakes up as a gigantic bug:
[DatePublished] => 2006-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133531 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 302098 [Title] => Japanese bizarro world fiction [Summary] => KAFKA ON THE SHORE
By Haruki Murakami
Knopf Books, 436 pages
Available at Powerbooks

[DatePublished] => 2005-10-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136008 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804693 [AuthorName] => Scott R. Garceau [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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