Kafka Judaism, Politics, Literature

Name: Kafka Judaism, Politics, Literature
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ISBN: 9780198158301

ISBN-10: 0198158300

ISBN-13: 9780198158301

Edition: 1985

Authors: Ritchie Robertson

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This major new study explores the historical and literary context of Kafka's writings and links them with his emerging sense of Jewish identity. Emphasized throughout is kafka's concern with contemporary society, his distrust of its secular humanitarianism, and his yearning for a new kind of community: one based on religion. Robertson points out that in Kafka's early writing, social themes as well as psychological and moral ones are prominent but that in the later fiction many allusions and images are drawn from jewish history and tradition. His aphorisms-whose significance has been overlooked until now-are interpreted as a coherent and profound meditation on religion and society and as the…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/24/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Kafka's Exploration of Judaism: The Context of Das Urteil (1912)	p. 1
The Urban World: Der Verschollene (1912-1914) and Die Verwandlung (1912)	p. 38
The Intricate Ways of Guilt: Der Prozeb (1914)	p. 87
Responsibility: The Shorter Fiction, 1914-1917	p. 131
Reflections from a Damaged Life: The Zurau Aphorisms, 1917-1918	p. 185
The Last Earthly Frontier: Das Schlob (1922)	p. 218
Epilogue: Forschungen eines Hundes (1922) and Josefine, die Sangerin oder das Volk her Mause (1924)	p. 274
Notes	p. 285
Bibliography	p. 317
Index	p. 323
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