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Kafka, Franz
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Kafka, Franz (1883–1924), German-speaking Jewish novelist, born in Prague, whose works (most of them published posthumously) had an immense influence on European and American literature. They include
The Trial (1925),
The Castle (1926), and the short story ‘The Metamorphosis’ (1915). They portray an uncertain, troubled, surreal world, in which lonely individuals are threatened by incomprehensible events and processes: the mood, recurring situations, and disturbing narrative style of these fictions have given rise to the widely used adjective ‘Kafkaesque’.
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Just Wild About Franz Kafka
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 10/4/1992; ; 700+ words
; FRANZ KAFKA's gaunt visage appears everywhere in...private venture operates the permanent Franz Kafka Exhibition. Opened in June 1991, the...the offices of the recently established Franz Kafka Center, which serves as the catalyst...
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Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/20/1995; ; 700+ words
; FRANZ KAFKA: The Jewish Patient. By Sander Gilman...Paper $18.95 When I first encountered Franz Kafka, as a high school student in the mid...published The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka, one of the great biographies of recent...
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Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie.(A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia)(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn. Eine Biographie. By PETER-ANDRE ALT. Munich: Beck. 2005. 762 pp. 34.90 [euro]. ISBN 978-3-406-53441-6. A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. By RICHARD T. GRAY, RUTH V. GROSS, ROLF J. GOEBEL...
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The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka. Detroit: Wayne State University...Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka was greeted with such enthusiasm...on Kafka's work, among them "Franz Kafka," "Kafka's Poetics of the...
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Sander L. Gilman. Franz Kafka.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Studies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Literature; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; Sander L. Gilman. Franz Kafka. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. 160 pp. Sander Gilman's Franz Kafka is a short biography that combines...Books series "Critical Lives," Franz Kafka is written for a general audience...
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Changing minds, saving lives: Franz Kafka as a key industrial reformer.
Magazine article from: East European Quarterly; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Everyone recognizes Franz Kafka as being one of the most significant...greatest writer, there is one--Franz Kafka--before whom I doff my hat...an author. KAFKA'S SOCIALISM Franz Kafka grew up in a well-to-do household...
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A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
Magazine article from: German Quarterly; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...ed. A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Rochester, NY: Camden House...Companion Guide to the Works of Franz Kafka becomes quickly emblematic of the...editorial perspective. The 'real' Franz Kafka is never going to stand up...
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Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" as model of ipseity in Levinasian theory.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 9/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...insights of Emmanuel Levinas, this essay argues that Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" may be read (post-Heidegger) as...centripetal.--Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity Franz Kafka's "The Burrow" ("Der Bau") is the first-person...
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Franz Kafka & the trip to Spindelmuhle.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 11/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...is a photograph still extant of Franz Kafka arriving in Spindelmuhle, the winter...lay under deep snow."(1) Like Kafka's own writings, the photograph...second edition of Klaus Wagenbach's Franz Kafka: Bilder aus seinem Leben (Berlin...
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BOOK REVIEW / Fur coats, cocaine and Franz Kafka
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/16/1995; ; 700+ words
; The women in Kafka's life were many and...Bauer, sighed, "My Franz was a saint." Her friend...into Czech. Like her, Kafka was a follower of fashion...haberdashery shop and Franz maintained a dandyish...Milena sharply remarked, Kafka was "like a naked man...
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Kafka, Franz
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Franz Kafka Born: July 3, 1883 Prague, Czechoslovakia...German novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka presented man's experience of total...he will never understand. Early life Franz Kafka was born on July 3, 1883, the eldest...
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Franz Kafka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Franz Kafka The Czech-born German novelist and short-story writer Franz Kafka (1883-1924) presented the experience...labyrinth which he will never understand. Franz Kafka was born July 3, 1883, the eldest of...
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Philip Roth
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Salinger, and Bernard Malamud. He introduced Franz Kafka as a character in his essay-story "Looking at Kafka," in which he had the Czech writer coming...David Kepesh journeys to Prague to visit Kafka's home and discuss him with a Czech professor...
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Max Brod
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Reubeni, Prince of the Jews (1925, tr. 1928). A lifelong friend of Franz Kafka, he wrote an excellent biography of Kafka (1937, tr. 1947) and also edited Kafka's writings. Brod's numerous other works include a biography of Heine...
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Fiction in Transition
Book article from: American Decades
...Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Thomas Mann, and especially Franz Kafka — looked not at social commentary or working...showed the influence of the French existentialists and Kafka in his depiction of an individual attempting to determine...
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