Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing - Rilegato

Zilcosky, John

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ISBN 10: 0312232810 ISBN 13: 9780312232818

Casa editrice: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Riassunto

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

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Recensione:

'[T]here is much to be said for [Zilcosky's] new, postcolonial Kafka.' - Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

JOHN ZILCOSKY teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has published articles on Kafka, Schopenhauer, Paul Auster, Botho Strauss, and literary theory.

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• Editore: Palgrave Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312232810
• ISBN 13: 9780312232818
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 289