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    France/Kafka by Hamilton, John T.;

    An Author in Theory

    Series: New Directions in German Studies;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 9 February 2023
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9798765100363
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages200 pages
    • Size 215x139 mm
    • Language English
    • 436

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    Long description:

    While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka's reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition.

    Hamilton also considers how Kafka's unique literary corpus came to stimulate reflection in diverse movements, critical approaches, and philosophical schools, from surrealism and existentialism through psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and structuralism to Marxism, deconstruction, and feminism. The story of Kafka's afterlife in Paris thus furnishes a key chapter in the unfolding of French theory, which continues to guide how we read literature and understand its relationship to the world.

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    Table of Contents:

    Abbreviations

    I. Gradus ad Parnassum
    The Writer and the Author in Theory · Through a Glass, darkly · From the Louvre to the Louvre · An Improbable Apparition · A Second Life
    II. Metamorphoses
    Naturalization Papers · Amid Intimacy and Exoticism · Universal Man · Dreams, Rivers, Snow · Translative Decisions · Bifurcations
    III. Trials
    Paratexts · The Adventurer · The Saint · A Certain Plume · Extremism · Non liquet
    IV. Contingencies
    Preoccupations · Nothing but Nothing · Seasickness on Land · Phantom War · Homo absurdus · Impossible Hope · Objective Style
    V. Judgments
    Upside Down, Right Side Up · Disengagement · Incendiaries · The Child · The Author in Theater
    VI. Labyrinths
    Signs of Change · The New New · Rhizomes · Primal Scenes · Derrida's Pharmacy

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