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John T. Hamilton, Imke Meyer - France/Kafka, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

France/Kafka

An Author in Theory

Av John T. Hamilton, Imke Meyer

Del i serien New Directions in German Studies

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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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John T. Hamilton is William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Philology of the Flesh (University of Chicago Press, 2018) and Complacency: Classics and its Displacement in Higher Education. (University of Chicago Press, 2022).

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This valuable new addition to the vast terrain of Kafka scholarship examines in detail the early reception of the Prague author in France. Hamilton’s [approach] is not a novel method—in the past couple of decades, such a richly contextualized approach has become the gold standard in the overlapping fields of reception history, translation studies, and comparative literature—but it is a compelling one. Coupled with Hamilton’s lively, readable style, these merits will appeal to a wide range of students and academics interested in Kafka as well as in twentieth-century French theory.

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