Author: Iris Bruce
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299221904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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Kafka and Cultural Zionism
Author: Iris Bruce
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299221904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher description
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299221904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
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Kafka's Last Trial
Author: Benjamin Balint
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781509836734
Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafka's last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal also led to an international legal battle over which country could lay claim to Kafka's legacy: Germany, where Kafka's own sister perished in the Holocaust and where he would have suffered a similar fate had he remained, or Israel? At once a brilliant biographical portrait of Kafka and Brod and the influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague Circle, Kafka's Last Trial offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts - brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled with Kafka's papers at the last possible moment from Prague to Palestine in 1939. It describes a wrenching escape from Nazi invaders as the gates of Europe closed; of a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a fascinating and hotly contested trial. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites us to question: who owns a literary legacy - the country of one's language and birth or of one's cultural and religious affinities - and what nation can claim a right to it.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781509836734
Category : Inheritance and succession
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
When Franz Kafka died in 1924, his loyal friend and champion Max Brod could not bring himself to fulfil Kafka's last instruction: to burn his remaining manuscripts. Instead, Brod devoted the rest of his life to canonizing Kafka as the most prescient chronicler of the twentieth century. By betraying Kafka's last wish, Brod twice rescued his legacy - first from physical destruction, and then from obscurity. But that betrayal also led to an international legal battle over which country could lay claim to Kafka's legacy: Germany, where Kafka's own sister perished in the Holocaust and where he would have suffered a similar fate had he remained, or Israel? At once a brilliant biographical portrait of Kafka and Brod and the influential group of writers and intellectuals known as the Prague Circle, Kafka's Last Trial offers a gripping account of the controversial trial in Israeli courts - brimming with dilemmas legal, ethical, and political - that determined the fate of the manuscripts Brod had rescued when he fled with Kafka's papers at the last possible moment from Prague to Palestine in 1939. It describes a wrenching escape from Nazi invaders as the gates of Europe closed; of a love affair between exiles stranded in Tel Aviv; and two countries whose national obsessions with overcoming the traumas of the past came to a head in a fascinating and hotly contested trial. Ultimately, Benjamin Balint invites us to question: who owns a literary legacy - the country of one's language and birth or of one's cultural and religious affinities - and what nation can claim a right to it.
Franz Kafka in Context
Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
What Ifs of Jewish History
Author: Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703762X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110703762X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
Counterfactual history of the Jewish past inviting readers to explore how the course of Jewish history might have been different.
Prague Territories
Author: Scott Spector
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This cultural history maps the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the 20th century. It explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
This cultural history maps the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish artists and intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the 20th century. It explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished.
The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka
Author: June O. Leavitt
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199827834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0199827834
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.
Jackals and Arabs
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: BoD E-Short
ISBN: 3734758459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
"Jackals and Arabs" (German: "Schakale und Araber") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly "Der Jude". It appeared again in the collection "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor") in 1919.
Publisher: BoD E-Short
ISBN: 3734758459
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
"Jackals and Arabs" (German: "Schakale und Araber") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly "Der Jude". It appeared again in the collection "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor") in 1919.
The Nightmare of Reason
Author: Ernst Pawel
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374523355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374523355
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.
God's Grace
Author: Bernard Malamud
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Malamud's vision is personal, original, and almost wholly unrelated to the most characteristic or normative Jewish thought and tradition.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374529673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Malamud's vision is personal, original, and almost wholly unrelated to the most characteristic or normative Jewish thought and tradition.
Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Ritchie Robertson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192804553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century. In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0192804553
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Franz Kafka is one of the most intriguing writers of the 20th century. In this text the author provides an up-to-date introduction to Kafka, beginning with an examination of his life and then discussing some of the major themes that emerge in Kafka's work.