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Princeton Princeton University Press 2004 Hard cover Very good in good dust jacket. Clean copy, minimal shelfwear. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 262 p. Audience: General/trade.
Princeton University Press 2004 1st ed hardcover Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691118167. 288 pages. hardcover. keywords: Franz Kafka Literary Criticism Literature Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER-On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story ‘The Judgment, ' which came out of him ‘like a regular birth. ' This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring ‘the limits of the human. ' At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting-with incomparable irony-their virtual impossibility. At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confessional writing, the dream, the media, the idea of marriage, skepticism, asceticism, and the imitation of death. La ...
Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691118167. 288 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Franz Kafka Literary Criticism Literature Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story ‘The Judgment,' which came out of him ‘like a regular birth.' This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring ‘the limits of the human.' At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting - with incomparable irony - their virtual impossibility. At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confessional writing, the dream, the media, the idea of marriage, skepticism, asceticism, and the imitation of death. Lambent Tr ...
ISBN10: 0691118167, ISBN13: 9780691118161, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Hardcover First Edition Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691118167. 288 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Franz Kafka Literary Criticism Literature Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story 'The Judgment,' which came out of him 'like a regular birth.' This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring 'the limits of the human.' At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting - with incomparable irony - their virtual impossibility. At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confes ...
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