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Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka

Book by Willa Muir, Edwin Muir, Franz Kafka; Modern Library, 1952

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Fiction, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Translations Into English

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...It was written in November, 1914, when Kafka had already begun working on The Trial...the influence of Kierkegaard, upon whom Kafka first came in 1913, the religious analogues...layers of his psychic life failed to free Kafka of his nerve-destroying fears and sense...
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Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions

Book by Elizabeth Boa; Clarendon Press, 1996

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Authors, Austrian--20th Century--Correspondence, Gender Identity In Literature, Jews In Literature, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Correspondence, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Political And Social Views, Sex In Literature, Social Classes In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...for his retreat could reinforce. 14 But Kafka himself denied that his state was an illness...therapeutic claim. The supposed illnesses, Kafka claims, are really Glaubenstatsachen...but belong to the core of the person. Kafka then offers a model of his own psychosomatic...
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Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka

Book by Stanley Corngold; Princeton University Press, 2006

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Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Criticism And Interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

14. Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography , 106. 15. Cf. Kafkas...wherever we turn (DF 65 66). Logically, Kafka would thereafter exclaim, Never again...decisive letter to Brod of July 5, 1922, Kafka speaks of his condition as a kind of being...
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The Terror of Art: Kafka and Modern Literature

Book by Martin Greenberg; Basic Books, 1968

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Kafka, Franz--1883-1924

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...quote from the following: Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography , translated by G. Humphrey...Schocken Books Inc. Wilhelm Emrich, Franz Kafka Frankfurt: Athenaum Verlag, 1958 . Reprinted...Main. Ronald Gray, "Introduction" to Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays , Ronald...
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Reluctant Theologians: Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, Edmond Jabes

Book by Beth Hawkins; Fordham University Press, 2003

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Celan, Paul--Religion, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence, Jabes, Edmond--Religion, Kafka, Franz--1883-1924--Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...itself. Existence, consequently, is for Kafka a primarily religious condition. The strategy of seeming reduction that Kafka employs in this aphorism is similar both...echoes the transitional method with which Kafka approaches the figure of Abraham. In...

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Kafka & Sex

Journal article by Stanley Corngold; Daedalus, Vol. 136, 2007

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Austrian writers--Criticism and interpretation, Austrian writers--Works, Authors, Austrian--Criticism and interpretation, Authors, Austrian--Works, Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation, Kafka, Franz--Works

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Kafka Sex. by Stanley Corngold On one occasion Kafka composed a story with a sexual intensity that perhaps no other...has ever experienced. The story is "The Judgment," which Kafka wrote in one go on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Day of Judgment...
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Beckett and Kafka

Journal article by Gary Adelman; Triquarterly, 2003

Subjects:

Beckett, Samuel, Kafka, Franz (1883-1924), Literary criticism, Novels, Poetry

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Beckett and Kafka by Gary Adelman I Kafka is an analogue for Beckett, a source, a model, someone to react against, even a forebear in the sense that Borges speaks of Kafka as a chosen precursor. "The Metamorphosis" stands like a silent...
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Changing Minds, Saving Lives: Franz Kafka as a Key Industrial Reformer

Journal article by Martin Wasserman; East European Quarterly, Vol. 35, 2001

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Authors--Political activity, Industrial development--Social aspects, Industrialization--Social aspects, Kafka, Franz--Political activity, Politics, Socialism--Social aspects, Sociology--Social aspects, Writers--Political activity

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Changing Minds, Saving Lives: Franz Kafka as a Key Industrial Reformer. by Martin Wasserman Everyone recognizes Franz Kafka as being one of the most significant...poet, W.H. Auden, has stated that Kafka is "the author who comes nearest to...
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Franz Kafka: Der Ewige Sohn. eine Biographie

Journal article by Julian Preece; The Modern Language Review, Vol. 102, 2007

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A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (Book)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews, Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie (Book)--Book reviews

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Franz Kafka: Der Ewige Sohn. eine Biographie. by Julian Preece Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie. By PETER-ANDRE...90 euro. ISBN 978-3-406-53441-6. A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. By RICHARD T. GRAY, RUTH V. GROSS...
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Du Scarabee Aptere (Kafka, Michaux, Chevillard)

Journal article by Thangam Ravindranathan; French Forum, Vol. 36, 2011

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Authors--Criticism and interpretation, Authors--Works, Chevillard, Eric--Criticism and interpretation, Chevillard, Eric--Works, Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation, Kafka, Franz--Works, Metamorphosis (Literature), Michaux, Henri--Criticism and interpretation, Michaux, Henri--Works, Writers--Criticism and interpretation, Writers--Works

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Du Scarabee Aptere (Kafka, Michaux, Chevillard). by Thangam...relevait aussitot une enigme que le recit de Kafka ne permettait pas de resoudre. Gregor...leur part voyaient dans les nouvelles de Kafka un devenir-animal bloque, estimant...

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My Kafka Problem

Magazine article by Jonathan Rosen; American Scholar, Vol. 72, Summer 2003

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Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation

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My Kafka Problem. by Jonathan Rosen I was introduced to Kafka by my father. I was a teenager. It was tax season and...literature. He was born in Vienna in 1924, the same year Kafka died in Prague; they missed each other by eight days...
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Franz Kafka & the Trip to Spindelmuhle

Magazine article by Eric Ormsby; New Criterion, Vol. 17, November 1998

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Kafka, Franz--Criticism, interpretation, etc., The Castle (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Translating and interpreting--Analysis

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Franz Kafka the trip to Spindelmuhle. by Eric Ormsby There is a photograph still extant of Franz Kafka arriving in Spindelmuhle, the winter resort...formidable Klamm in The Castle itself, Kafka made the trip rather laboriously by horse...
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The Labyrinth Within: Franz Kafka and the Predicament of Modern Man

Magazine article by Eric Olsen; World and I, Vol. 19, June 2004

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Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation

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The Labyrinth Within: Franz Kafka and the Predicament of Modern Man. by Eric Olsen Eric Olsen is executive editor of The World I. And yet Kafka was Prague and Prague was Kafka. Never had it been Prague so perfectly, so typically...
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Kafka: A Biography

Magazine article by Bruce Bawer; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 28, Autumn 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Kafka: a Biography (Book)--Book reviews

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Kafka: A Biography. by Bruce Bawer KAFKA: A Biography. By Nicholas Murray. Yale Univ. Press. 440 pp. $30 On July 12, 1914, Franz Kafka, an employee of the Workers Accident Insurance Institute for...
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Kafka and His World

Magazine article by Anthony Radice; Contemporary Review, Vol. 286, February 2005

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Books--Book reviews, Kafka (Book)--Book reviews

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Kafka and His World. by Anthony Radice Kafka. Nicholas Murray. Little, Brown. pounds sterling20.00...440 pages. ISBN 0-316-72479-3. Where exactly does Franz Kafka belong? This was a question which occupied this most alienated...

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Making a Life beyond Kafka; Trials of a Brave Woman Who Kept Ailing Writer Alive

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 27, 2003

Subjects:

Kafka, Franz

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Making a life beyond Kafka; Trials of a brave woman who kept ailing...There is something a bit odd, if not Kafka-esque, about the way Kathi Diamant...Metamorphosis, a short story by Franz Kafka, when the instructor interrupted class...
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Trivial Trumps Substantive; Cult of Personality Skewered in 'Kafka'

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, December 15, 2007

Subjects:

Kafka, Franz

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Substantive; Cult of Personality Skewered in Kafka. Byline: Jayne Blanchard, THE WASHINGTON...Alan Bennetts brainy slapstick comedy "Kafka," an area premiere at the Washington...Metamorphosis," "The Castle" and other Kafka works and be a devotee of the Times Literary...
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Lost Kafka Writings Resurface, Trapped in Trial

Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 23, 2010

Subjects:

Brod, Max--Criticism and interpretation, Kafka, Franz--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Lost Kafka Writings Resurface, Trapped in Trial...boxes of never-published writings by Franz Kafka, their exact contents unknown, are trapped...have inherited them from their mother. "Kafka could easily have written a story like this...
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New Territory for Kafka

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), July 15, 2011

Subjects:

Kafka, Franz

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

New Territory for Kafka. Byline: HENRY HITCHINGS IN THE PENAL...deeply unsettling interpretation of a Franz Kafka story thats previously inspired a song...judicial system. This dramatic rendering of Kafka raises topical questions about torture...
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My Kafka Moments in Prague; for a Surreal Trip Away from the Crowds, Just Followthe Author's Steps, Says Caroline Hendrie

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), April 8, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

My Kafka Moments in Prague; for a Surreal Trip Away...giant is instantly recognisable as Franz Kafka. But the meaning of the statue of Pragues...synagogue was put up only in 2004 and the Franz Kafka Museum containing first editions of his work...

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Kafka, Franz

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

KAFKA, FRANZ frants kaf ka, 1883 1924, German...novelist, b. Prague. Along with Joyce, Kafka is perhaps the most influential of 20th...remarkable for its clarity and precision, Kafka presents a world that is at once real and...
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Brod, Max

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1916, tr. 1928) and Reubeni, Prince of the Jews (1925, tr. 1928). A lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, he wrote an excellent biography of Kafka (1937, tr. 1947) and also edited Kafkas writings. Brods numerous other works include a biography...
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Schulz, Bruno

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...notable for their erotic charge and their acute anticipation of the Holocaust. His style, which has been compared both to Kafka and Proust , is elaborately figured, poetic, and tinged with surrealism. Schulz published his first story collection, The...
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Expressionism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...reality rather than record external events in logical sequence. In the novel, the term is closely allied to the writing of Franz Kafka and James Joyce (see stream of consciousness ). In the drama, Strindberg is considered the forefather of the expressionists...
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Benjamin, Walter

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...his synthesis of eccentric Marxist theory and Jewish messianism. In particular, his essays on Charles Baudelaire and Franz Kafka as well as his speculation on symbolism, allegory, and the function of art in a mechanical age have profoundly affected contemporary...

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