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Author | : James Rolleston |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781571133366 |
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Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.
Author | : Julian Preece |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2002-02-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521663915 |
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Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Author | : Hayley Mitchell Haugen |
Publisher | : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
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Fifteen essays analyze the art and the psychology of Austrian author Franz Kafka's "The Metamorphosis," in which a man is suddenly turned into an insect. Also includes a chronology and a bibliography.
Author | : Ronald Gray |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 1973-02-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521200073 |
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This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings. He presents a persuasive and coherent account of Kafka's personal and artistic development and its meaning and value for us. Dr Gray argues that the early short stories are most finished and controlled; here Kafka recognised and managed to find a form exactly fitting his own condition, and the writing is less compulsive and obsessional than it became later. Dr Gray quotes extensively, translating specifically for the purpose. He writes for all whose who read Kafka, especially the many who read him in translation and would like a helpful and shrewd guide to understanding. Kafka's work hauntingly expresses one whole area of the modern mind - its anguish, dissociation and guilt - and this sane and sympathetic book puts him into a humane perspective.
Author | : Carolin Duttlinger |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2013-06-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 110724420X |
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Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more engaging, diverse, light-hearted and ironic than is commonly suggested by clichés of 'the Kafkaesque'. And, once explored in detail, they are less difficult and impenetrable than is often assumed. Through close analysis of their style, imagery and narrative perspective, Carolin Duttlinger aims to give readers the confidence to (re-)discover Kafka's works without constant recourse to the mantras of critical orthodoxy. In addition, she situates Kafka's texts within their wider cultural, historical and political contexts illustrating how they respond to the concerns of their age, and of our own.
Author | : Franz Kafka |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022-02-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0374722293 |
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A new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen. “Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to describe the Great Wall of China by someone who’s standing just next to it. The only honest thing to do is point.” —Joshua Cohen, from his foreword to He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a frame that refuses distinctions between what is a story, a letter, a workplace memo, and a diary entry, also including popular favorites like The Bucket Rider, The Penal Colony, and The Burrow. Here we see Kafka’s preoccupations in writing about animals, messiah variations, food, and exercise, each in his signature style. Cohen’s selection emphasizes the stately structure of utterly coherent logic within an utterly incoherent and illogical world, showing how Kafka harnessed the humblest grammar to metamorphic power, until the predominant effect ceases to be the presence of an unreliable narrator but the absence of the universe’s only reliable narrator—God.
Author | : Franz Kafka |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 116 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811228029 |
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A windfall for every reader: a trove of marvelous impossible-to-find Kafka stories in a masterful new translation by Michael Hofmann Selected by the preeminent Kafka biographer and scholar Reiner Stach and newly translated by the peerless Michael Hofmann, the seventy-four pieces gathered here have been lost to sight for decades and two of them have never been translated into English before. Some stories are several pages long; some run about a page; a handful are only a few lines long: all are marvels. Even the most fragmentary texts are revelations. These pieces were drawn from two large volumes of the S. Fischer Verlag edition Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente (totaling some 1100 pages). “Franz Kafka is the master of the literary fragment,” as Stach comments in his afterword: "In no other European author does the proportion of completed and published works loom quite so...small in the overall mass of his papers, which consist largely of broken-off beginnings.” In fact, as Hofmann recently added: “‘Finished' seems to me, in the context of Kafka, a dubious or ironic condition, anyway. The more finished, the less finished. The less finished, the more finished. Gregor Samsa’s sister Grete getting up to stretch in the streetcar. What kind of an ending is that?! There’s perhaps some distinction to be made between ‘finished' and ‘ended.' Everything continues to vibrate or unsettle, anyway. Reiner Stach points out that none of the three novels were ‘completed.' Some pieces break off, or are concluded, or stop—it doesn’t matter!—after two hundred pages, some after two lines. The gusto, the friendliness, the wit with which Kafka launches himself into these things is astonishing.”
Author | : Harald Salfellner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9788072532148 |
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Author | : Graham Bartram |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2004-04-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521483926 |
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The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Author | : Franz Kafka |
Publisher | : Penguin Uk |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780140184761 |
Download The Great Wall of China and Other Short Works Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume contains the major short works left by Kafka, including Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor, The Great Wall of China and Investigations of a Dog, together with The Collected Aphorisms and He: Aphorisms from the 1920 Diary.