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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577936
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Kafka: A Very Short Introduction written by Ritchie Robertson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared [America], were published after his death and helped to found Kafka's reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Kafka's fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker is arrested by a mysterious court, a fasting artist starves to death in the name of art, a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed 'the death of God'. The result is an up-to-date and accessible portrait of a fascinating author which shows us ways to read and make sense of his perplexing and absorbing work. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Kafka

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781402775307
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (753 download)

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Download or read book Kafka written by Ritchie Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, as part of the Very short introduction series.

Goethe

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199689253
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Goethe written by Ritchie Robertson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robertson covers the life and work of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832): scientist, administrator, artist, art critic, and literary writer in a variety of genres.

A Hunger Artist and Other Stories

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191627046
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book A Hunger Artist and Other Stories written by Franz Kafka and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In recent decades, interest in hunger artists has greatly diminished.' Kafka published two collections of short stories in his lifetime, A Country Doctor: Little Tales (1919) and A Hunger Artist: Four Stories (1924). Both collections are included in their entirety in this edition, which also contains other, uncollected stories and a selection of posthumously published works that have become part of the Kafka canon. Enigmatic, satirical, often bleakly humorous, these stories approach human experience at a tangent: a singing mouse, an ape, an inquisitive dog, and a paranoid burrowing creature are among the protagonists, as well as the professional starvation artist. A patient seems to be dying from a metaphysical wound; the war-horse of Alexander the Great steps aside from history and adopts a quiet profession as a lawyer. Fictional meditations on art and artists, and a series of aphorisms that come close to expressing Kafka's philosophy of life, further explore themes that recur in his major novels. Newly translated, and with an invaluable introduction and notes, Kafka's short stories are haunting and unforgettable. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Ilan Stavans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190076992
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Ilan Stavans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries. In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish literature from 1492 to the present, cultural historian Ilan Stavans focuses on its multilingual and transnational nature. Stavans presents a wide range of traditions within Jewish literature and the variety of writers who made those traditions possible. Represented are writers as dissimilar as Luis de Carvajal the Younger, Franz Kafka, Bruno Schulz, Isaac Babel, Anzia Yezierska, Elias Canetti, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Irving Howe, Clarice Lispector, Susan Sontag, Philip Roth, Grace Paley, Amos Oz, Moacyr Scliar, and David Grossman. The story of Jewish literature spans the globe as well as the centuries, from the marrano poets and memorialists of medieval Spain, to the sprawling Yiddish writing in Ashkenaz (the "Pale of Settlement' in Eastern Europe), to the probing narratives of Jewish immigrants to the United States and other parts of the New World. It also examines the accounts of horror during the Holocaust, the work of Israeli authors since the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, and the "ingathering" of Jewish works in Brazil, Bulgaria, Argentina, and South Africa at the end of the twentieth century. This kaleidoscopic introduction to Jewish literature presents its subject matter as constantly changing and adapting.

The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka

Author : June O. Leavitt
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199827834
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka written by June O. Leavitt and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.

Modernism: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Christopher Butler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192804413
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Modernism: A Very Short Introduction written by Christopher Butler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-29 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact introduction to modernism--why it began, what it is, and how it hasshaped virtually all aspects of 20th and 21st century life

Kafka

Author : Reiner Stach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140086545X
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Kafka written by Reiner Stach and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of Kafka's final years as never before—the third volume in the acclaimed definitive biography This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924—a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with nearly cinematic precision, zooming in for extreme close-ups of Kafka's personal life, then pulling back for panoramic shots of a wider world blighted by World War I, disease, and inflation. In these years, Kafka was spared military service at the front, yet his work as a civil servant brought him into chilling proximity with its grim realities. He was witness to unspeakable misery, lost the financial security he had been counting on to lead the life of a writer, and remained captive for years in his hometown of Prague. The outbreak of tuberculosis and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire constituted a double shock for Kafka, and made him agonizingly aware of his increasing rootlessness. He began to pose broader existential questions, and his writing grew terser and more reflective, from the parable-like Country Doctor stories and A Hunger Artist to The Castle. A door seemed to open in the form of a passionate relationship with the Czech journalist Milena Jesenská. But the romance was unfulfilled and Kafka, an incurably ill German Jew with a Czech passport, continued to suffer. However, his predicament only sharpened his perceptiveness, and the final period of his life became the years of insight.

Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kafka on the Shore

Author : Haruki Murakami
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400044812
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kafka on the Shore written by Haruki Murakami and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the New York Times bestselling 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 an aging simpleton. Now with a new introduction by the author. Here we meet 15-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.” —The Chicago Tribune

The Basic Kafka

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 067153145X
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (715 download)

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Download or read book The Basic Kafka written by Franz Kafka and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published together for the first time are selections from all Kafka's writings: The Metamorphosis, Josephine The Singer, plus his short stories, parables, and his personal diaries and letters.

German Literature: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199206597
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book German Literature: A Very Short Introduction written by Nicholas Boyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

Photography: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Steve Edwards
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192801643
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Photography: A Very Short Introduction written by Steve Edwards and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-24 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs are an integral part of our daily lives - from snapshots and tabloid newspapers to art photography in galleries and exhibitions. Edwards combines a sense of the historical development of photography with an insightful analysis of its purpose and meaning within a wider cultural context.

Give it Up!

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Comics Lit
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Give it Up! written by Franz Kafka and published by Comics Lit. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated by Peter Kuper In another ground-breaking album from Comicslit, nine stories by Franz Kafka are put into bold graphic comic art by award-winning illustrator and cartoonist Peter Kuper. In an original twist, Kuper's take on these tales, which are as true to today's world as ever - refreshingly brings out the dark humour latent in Kafka's work.

The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka

Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760380
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century's most important writers.

Dearest Father

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dearest Father written by Franz Kafka and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation

Author : Jennifer L. Geddes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810132915
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation written by Jennifer L. Geddes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpretability is not only wrong, it also misconstrues a central concern of his work. Kafka was not trying to avoid or prevent interpretation; rather, his works are centrally concerned with it. Geddes explores the interpretation that takes place within, and in response to, Kafka's writings, and pairs Kafka's works with readings of Sigmund Freud, Pierre Bourdieu, Tzvetan Todorov, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. She argues that Kafka explores interpretation as a mode of power and violence, but also as a mode of engagement with the world and others. Kafka, she argues, challenges us to rethink the ways we read texts, engage others, and navigate the world through our interpretations of them.