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Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Journal of the Kafka Society of America
Author: Journal of the Kafka Society of America, New International Series
Author: Dagmar C. G. LorenzPublisher:
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Category : German fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Journal of the Kafka Society of America
Author: Kafka and Biography
Author: Kafka the Cultural Icon
Author: Newsletter of the Kafka Society of America
Author: Kafka and Biography
Author: Hartmut BinderAnatomist of Power
Author: Despiniadis Costas DespiniadisPublisher: Black Rose Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1551646862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Few twentieth-century writers remain as potent as Franz Kafka-one of the rare figures to maintain both a major presence in the academy and on the shelves of general readers. Yet, remarkably, no work has yet fully focused on his politics and anti-authoritarian sensibilities. The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority is a fascinating new look at his widely known novels and stories (including The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Amerika), portraying him as a powerful critic of authority, bureaucracy, capitalism, law, patriarchy, and prisons. Making deft use of Kafka's diaries, his friends' memoirs, and his original sketches, Costas Despiniadis addresses his active participation in Prague's anarchist circles, his wide interest in anarchist authors, his skepticism about the Russian Revolution, and his ambivalent relationship with utopian Zionism. The portrait of Kafka that emerges is striking and fresh-rife with insights and a refusal to accept the structures of power that dominated his society.
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia
Author: Richard T. GrayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313061424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Kafka's Travels
Author: J. ZilcoskyPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137076372
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.