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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Princeton, NJ :
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2004
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Abbreviations for Kafka Citations; Introduction: Beginnings; CHAPTER 1 In the Circle of "The Judgment"; CHAPTER 2 The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise; CHAPTER 3 Medial Interferences in The Trial Or, res in Media; CHAPTER 4 Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony"; CHAPTER 5 Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity; CHAPTER 6 Something to Do with the Truth Kafka's Later Stories; CHAPTER 7 "A Faith Like a Guillotine" Kafka on Skepticism; CHAPTER 8 Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature; CHAPTER 9 Adorno's "Notes on Kafka" A Critical Reconstruction.
