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Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by David Musgrave.
Author : Carter Scholz
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312423339
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Download or read book The Amount to Carry written by Carter Scholz and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of twelve stories, Carter Scholz reveals his truly remarkable range and prodigious narrative gifts. Traveling from the surface of the moon to the New Jersey suburbs, they explore the places in the human mind where science and fiction merge. Here are stories that disturb the universe, probe the worlds we call home, and measure the degrees of our alienation. Mind-expanding, entertaining, and often richly disquieting, the stories in The Amount to Carry are bravura performances of the imagination.
Author : Jonathan Lethem
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393322538
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Kafka Americana written by Jonathan Lethem and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously published only in a signed, limited edition, "Kafka Americana" has achieved cult status. In an act of literary appropriation, the authors seize a helpless Kafka by the lapels and thrust him into the cultural wreckage of 20th century America.
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Collected Aphorisms written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0307829456
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume. “[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man’s cosmic predicament.” —from the Foreword by John Updike
Author : Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487506309
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Kafka’s Italian Progeny written by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores Kafka's sometimes surprising connections with key Italian writers, from Italo Calvino to Elena Ferrante, who shaped Italy's modern literary landscape.
Author : Reiner Stach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069123356X
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Kafka written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the acclaimed central volume of the definitive biography of Franz Kafka. Reiner Stach spent more than a decade working with over four thousand pages of journals, letters, and literary fragments, many never before available, to re-create the atmosphere in which Kafka lived and worked from 1910 to 1915, the most important and best-documented years of his life. This period, which would prove crucial to Kafka's writing and set the course for the rest of his life, saw him working with astonishing intensity on his most seminal writings--The Trial, The Metamorphosis, The Man Who Disappeared (Amerika), and The Judgment. These are also the years of Kafka's fascination with Zionism; of his tumultuous engagement to Felice Bauer; and of the outbreak of World War I. Kafka: The Decisive Years is at once an extraordinary portrait of the writer and a startlingly original contribution to the art of literary biography.
Author : Walter Herbert Sokel
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814326084
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Myth of Power and the Self written by Walter Herbert Sokel and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches--linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida--into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.
Author : Uwe Schütte
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110423545
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book German Pop Music written by Uwe Schütte and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of German pop music represents a fascinating cultural mirror to the history of post-war Germany, reflecting sociological changes and political developments. While film studies is an already established discipline, German pop music is currently emerging as a new and exciting field of academic study. This pioneering companion is the first volume to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject, charting the development of German pop music from the post-war period 'Schlager' to the present 'Diskursrock'. Written by acknowledged experts from Germany, the UK and the US, the various chapters provide overviews of pertinent genres as well as focusing on major bands such as CAN, Kraftwerk or Rammstein. While these acts have shaped the international profile of German pop music, the volume also undertakes in-depth examinations of the specific German contributions to genres such as punk, industrial, rap and techno. The survey is concluded by an interview with the leading German pop theorist Diedrich Diederichsen. The volume constitutes an indispensible companion for any student, teacher and scholar in the area of German studies interested in contemporary popular culture.
Author : Miroslav Petříček
Publisher : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press
ISBN 13 : 8024638533
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (246 download)
Download or read book Philosophy en noir written by Miroslav Petříček and published by Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to understand, since they confront incomprehensibly traumatic experiences. In this first English-language translation of any of his books, Miroslav Petříček — one of the most influential and erudite Czech philosophers, and a student of Jan Patočka — argues that to exist in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond, Western philosophy has had to rewrite its tradition and its discourse, radically transforming itself. Should philosophy be capable of bearing witness to the time, Petříček contends, this metamorphosis in philosophy is necessary. Offering an original Central European perspective on postwar philosophical discourse that reflects upon the historical underpinnings of pop culture phenomena and complex philosophical schools — including Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Derrida, Husserl, Kracauer, and many others — Philosophy en noir is a record of this transformation
Author : Greg Houwer
Publisher : ACCO
ISBN 13 : 9033480697
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Into the White written by Greg Houwer and published by ACCO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Into the white" lays bare a hidden overall logic in Kafka's work. Kafka's fictitious characters, instead of restoring an initial balance - as it is the case in most fiction -, do everything they can to maintain the imbalance. The book shows that this should be linked to Kafka's own relationship to his calling as a writer. Although 'called', Kafka always felt that he could never really 'enter the gate of his vocation': he could only wait before the open but unapproachable entrance. Writing carried a promise for Kafka that was unfulfillable. Hence, by keeping open the imbalance of its fictitious characters, Kafka's prose tries to sustain the promise.
Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061424
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia written by Richard T. Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Iris Bruce
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299221904
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (219 download)
Download or read book Kafka and Cultural Zionism written by Iris Bruce and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Naama Harel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126512
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)
Download or read book Kafka's Zoopoetics written by Naama Harel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka’s animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka’s commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka’s entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka’s Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka’s animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in “The Metamorphosis”), an ape turned into a human being (in “A Report to an Academy”), talking jackals (in “Jackals and Arabs”), a philosophical dog (in “Researches of a Dog”), a contemplative mole-like creature (in “The Burrow”), and indiscernible beings (in “Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People”). Depicting species boundaries as mutable and obscure, Kafka creates a fluid human-animal space, which can be described as “humanimal.” The constitution of a humanimal space radically undermines the stark barrier between human and other animals, dictated by the anthropocentric paradigm. Through denying animalistic elements in humans, and disavowing the agency of nonhuman animals, excluding them from social life, and neutralizing compassion for them, this barrier has been designed to regularize both humanity and animality. The contextualization of Kafka's animals within posthumanist theory engenders a post-anthropocentric arena, which is simultaneously both imagined and very real.
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312369329
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (123 download)
Download or read book Franz Kafka Vol 2 written by Franz Kafka and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-20 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-language writer of novels and short stories, regarded by critics as one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. Kafka strongly influenced genres such as existentialism. Most of his works, such as "Die Verwandlung" ("The Metamorphosis"), Der Prozess (The Trial), and Das Schloss (The Castle), are filled with the themes and archetypes of alienation, physical and psychological brutality, parent-child conflict, characters on a terrifying quest, labyrinths of bureaucracy, and mystical transformations.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0192804553
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Kafka: A Very Short Introduction written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century. In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.
Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527483
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Kafka and Photography written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which explore photography from a variety of different perspectives. By far the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in Kafka's texts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to visuality more generally. This study not only explores photography's recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also the first to take systematic account of Kafka's use of photographs as literary source material. Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka's engagement with his time and context. Providing a chronological account of key prose works, as well as the personal writings, this study is accessible to students and lay readers. It will be of interest not only to literary scholars but also to those working in photography, media, and cultural studies. Its detailed textual analyses are set against a richly documented historical context which illustrates Kafka's interest in contemporary culture through a range of visual material taken from public as well as private sources - some of which has only recently become available. As this book demonstrates, photography had a profound impact on Kafka's literary imagination and as such helps to explain the mesmerizing intensity of enigmatic visual detail which is a hallmark of his narratives.
