Kafka: a Very Short Introduction

Name: Kafka: a Very Short Introduction
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ISBN: 9780192804556

ISBN-10: 0192804553

ISBN-13: 9780192804556

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ritchie Robertson

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Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. His other three novels, published after his death, helped to found his reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Discussing both Kafka's crisis-ridden life and the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson provides an intriguing and accessible look at the life of this fascinating author. Using Metamorphosis as a recurring example, Robertson shows how Kafka's work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in…

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List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 4.37" wide x 6.89" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.264
Language: English



Acknowledgements


List of illustrations



Life and myth



Reading Kafka



Bodies



Institutions



The last things


References


Further reading


Index