Description |
xx, 273 p. ; 24 cm. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Part 1. Kafka's stories: Zarathustra on Laurentian Hill: Quetelet, Nietzsche, and Mach ("Description of a struggle") -- The birth of writing from suicide statistics ("The judgment") -- Ways of looking at a vermin (The metamorphosis) -- The punch card and the poet's body ("In the penal colony") -- Kafka and the philosophy of music; or, "Des Kommas Fehl hilft" ("Researches of a dog") -- The ministry of writing (The castle) -- Part 2. Kafka's person, Kafka's world: Kafka and sex -- Kafka (with Nietzsche) as neo-gnostic thinkers -- The calm of writing: Kafka's poetics of accident -- Dissenting discourses: "I am not competent to decide that". |
Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Added Author |
Wagner, Benno, 1958-
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ISBN |
9780810127692 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0810127695 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Standard No. |
40019859005 |
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