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Understanding Franz Kafka
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Author : Allen Thiher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Understanding Franz Kafka written by Allen Thiher and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work. Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka’s eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of his writing to be edited and published after his death by his literary executor, Max Brod. In Understanding Franz Kafka, Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka’s work by analyzing it in terms of its chronological unfolding, emphasizing the various phases in Kafka’s life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing. Thiher also shows that Kafka’s work, frequently self-referential, explores the ways literature can have meaning in a world in which writing is a dubious activity. After outlining Kafka’s life using new biographical information, Thiher examines Kafka’s first attempts at writing, often involving nearly farcical experiments. The study then shows how Kafka’s work developed through twists and turns, beginning with the breakthrough stories “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis,” continuing with his first attempt at a novel with Amerika, and followed by Kafka’s shifting back and forth between short fiction and two other unpublished novels, The Trial and The Castle. Thiher also calls on Kafka’s notebooks and diaries to help demonstrate that he never stopped experimenting in his attempt to find a literary form that might satisfy his desire to create some kind of transcendental text in an era in which the transcendent is at best an object of nostalgia or of comic derision. In short, Thiher contends, Kafka constantly sought the grounds for writing in a world in which all appears groundless.
Wedding Preparations In The Country
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Author : Franz Kafka
language : en
Publisher: Babelcube Inc.
Release Date : 2016-08-08
Wedding Preparations In The Country written by Franz Kafka and has been published by Babelcube Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-08 with Fiction categories.
Wedding Preparations in the Country is a fragmented narrative by Franz Kafka, written between 1907 and 1909 and published posthumously. The story itself, namely the journey of the unhappy bridegroom Raban to his bride out in the country, is embedded in a meticulous description of his surroundings. This narrative was intended to be part of a novel. However, Kafka abandoned the project after multiple attempts.
He Shorter Writings Of Franz Kafka
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Author : Franz Kafka
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2022-02-22
He Shorter Writings Of Franz Kafka written by Franz Kafka and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-22 with Fiction categories.
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.
The Metamorphosis
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Author : Franz Kafka
language : en
Publisher: Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
Release Date : 2020-01-14
The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka and has been published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-14 with Fiction categories.
New translation of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. Poor Gregor Samsa! This guy wakes up one morning to discover that he's become a "monstrous vermin". The first pages of The Metamorphosis where Gregor tries to communicate through the bedroom door with his family, who think he’s merely being lazy, is vintage screwball comedy. Indeed, scholars and readers alike have delighted in Kafka’s gallows humor and matter-of-fact handling of the absurd and the terrifying. But it is one of the most enigmatic stories of all time, with an opening sentence that’s unparalleled in all of literature.
Franz Kafka
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Author : Stanley Corngold
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-15
Franz Kafka written by Stanley Corngold and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka’s art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka’s rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. Kafka’s distinctive narrative strategies, Corngold points out, demand interpretation at the same time they resist it. Critics of Kafka, he says, must be aware that their approaches are guided by the principles that Kafka’s fiction identifies, dramatizes, and rejects.
Franz Kafka In Context
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Author : Carolin Duttlinger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-12-28
Franz Kafka In Context written by Carolin Duttlinger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent periods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twentieth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimentation. Kafka's novels and short stories reflect their author's keen but critical engagement with the big questions of his time, and yet often Kafka is still cast as a solitary figure with little or no connection to his age. Franz Kafka in Context aims to redress this perception. In thirty-five short, accessible essays, leading international scholars explore Kafka's personal and working life, his reception of art and culture, his engagement with political and social issues, and his ongoing reception and influence. Together they offer a nuanced and historically grounded image of a writer whose work continues to fascinate readers from all backgrounds.
Kafka On The Shore
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Author : Haruki Murakami
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2006-01-03
Kafka On The Shore written by Haruki Murakami and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-03 with Fiction categories.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey. “As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune
Understanding Franz Werfel
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Author : Hans Wagener
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1993
Understanding Franz Werfel written by Hans Wagener and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Literary Criticism categories.
Describes the life & work of the Austrian poet & novelist who heralded the German Expressionist movement in 1911, wrote some of Europe's most widely read novels in the 1930s, & enjoyed popular success in the 1940s with the film adaptations of his best-selling novels.
William Faulkner S Rose For Emily And Franz Kafka S The Metamorphosis A Comparative View
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Author : Ali Alhaj
language : en
Publisher: Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
Release Date : 2015-03-04
William Faulkner S Rose For Emily And Franz Kafka S The Metamorphosis A Comparative View written by Ali Alhaj and has been published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is divided into tour chapters in addition to a conclusion: chapter one is an introduction to focuses on the two winters' contribution, reputation and influence. Chapter two is devoted to a critical appreciation of William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily. Chapter Three is devoted to a critical appreciation of Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Chapter four gives a brief study of comparison and contract of the two writers stories, A Rose for Emily and The Metamorphosis. Finally, the book ends with the conclusion that there are strong resemblances in the characters of “A Rose for Emily and The Metamorphosis. Miss Emily and Samsa, both, they were affected by the same kind of isolation. Both were deeply affected by the injustices of the society and family.
Franz Kafka
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Franz Kafka written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.