Franz Kafka
"This short and readable critical biography emphasizes the relationship between Franz Kafka's life and works as read through his culture and his understanding of his own 'body'. Kafka's writings, letters and diaries provide a window into his ongoing attempt to create an identity for himself in a world where being a Central European Jew dictated an uneasy fate. Sander L. Gilman stresses the image and role of the Jew in Kafka's world of the 'modern' and how Kafka responded to these attitudes, act…
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- Full title :Franz Kafka / Sander L. Gilman.
Summary
"This short and readable critical biography emphasizes the relationship between Franz Kafka's life and works as read through his culture and his understanding of his own 'body'. Kafka's writings, letters and diaries provide a window into his ongoing attempt to create an identity for himself in a world where being a Central European Jew dictated an uneasy fate. Sander L. Gilman stresses the image and role of the Jew in Kafka's world of the 'modern' and how Kafka responded to these attitudes, actions and stereotypes." "Gilman also looks at the impact of psychoanalysis on Kafka and his works. The book contains much material that elucidates how Kafka reshaped such experiences of the world in his literary texts. It examines the creation of the 'Kafka-myth' after his death, presenting material emerging from the subsequent eighty years, including work by such illustrious minds as Walter Benjamin and Ted Hughes."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:©2005
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Reaktion books
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2005
The Physical Object
- Description:160 pages : : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1861892543, 9781861892546
- oclc:ocm60371660
- LC Classification:PT2621.A26
- Dewey Decimal:833.912
Table of Contents
My family and my body as a curse -- Writing -- A life ill -- A life after life.
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