Lambent traces : Franz Kafka /
On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
2004
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibili. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 262 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826131 1400826136 1282129546 9781282129542 9786612129544 6612129549 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
