Camden House, 2019. — viii+232 p. — (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture). — ISBN 978-1-57113-981-8. The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 198 p. — (Jewish Lives). — ISBN 978-0300136616. Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence — in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of...
Yale University Press, 2013. — 198 p. — (Jewish Lives). — ISBN 978-0300136616. Franz Kafka was the poet of his own disorder. Throughout his life he struggled with a pervasive sense of shame and guilt that left traces in his daily existence — in his many letters, in his extensive diaries, and especially in his fiction. This stimulating book investigates some of the sources of...
Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2019. — xii+250 p. — ISBN: 978-0810138933. A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writings of Franz Kafka. These include the painful squeak in Gregor Samsa's voice, the indeterminate whistling of Josefine the singer, the relentless noise in "The Burrow," and telephonic disturbances in The Castle. In Kafka...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — xviii+290 p. — (Oxford Studies in Philosophy and Literature). — ISBN: 978-0-19-046145-4. "The Trial", written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multifaceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism. Written in a relatively abstract language, it tells the story of Josef K., who is accused of a crime he has...
Conduttore: Alessandro Piperno. Trasmissione dal 14 gennaio 2011. Tema: Franz Kafka e il grottesto del quotidiano. Un fascicolo di 20 pagine, nel quale si ripercorrono la vita, le opere, la poetica, le scelte linguistiche e il contesto storico, politico e culturale di riferimento per ogni autore (oltre a una breve biografia del relatore). Da Omero a Tolstoj, da Dante a Márquez...
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015 — 400 p. — (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics). — ISBN10: 0804796599; ISBN13: 978-0804796590. The Yield is a once-in-a-generation reinterpretation of the oeuvre of Franz Kafka. At the same time, it is a powerful new entry in the debates about the supposed secularity of the modern age. Kafka is one of the most admired writers of the last...
S. Fischer Verlag, 1990. — 710 S. — ISBN10: 3-10-038128-9, ISBN13: 978-3-10-038128-6. Im August 1914 - die großen Nationen Europas hatten einander gerade den Krieg erklärt - begann Franz Kafka seinen Roman "Der Proceß" zu schreiben. Die Zeitumstände machten es ihm schwer. Verzweiflung und Mutlosigkeit begleiteten ihn bei der Niederschrift, als hätte er aufgrund der Geschehnisse...
Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 751 p. Franz Kafka’s writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture, and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe’s most distinctive modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka’s...
Northwestern University Press, 2015. — x+220 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8101-3150-7. In "Kafka and Wittgenstein", Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean,...
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