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Franz Kafka
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ISBN: 0521097479 9780521097475 Year: 1973 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,


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Franz Kafka
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ISBN: 9064811350 9789064811357 Year: 1991 Publisher: Utrecht : Kwadraat,

Reiziger in scheerapparaten : Kafka in Nederland en Vlaanderen
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ISBN: 902145310X Year: 1984 Publisher: Amsterdam Querido

Franz Kafka : Dichtungstheorie und Dichtungsgestalt
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ISBN: 3416007913 9783416007917 Year: 1973 Volume: 9 Publisher: Bonn : Bouvier,

Franz Kafka : The Necessity of Form
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ISBN: 0801421993 9781501722813 1501722816 9780801421990 1501722824 1501727796 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. Kafka's distinctive narrative strategies, Corngold points out, demand interpretation at the same time they resist it. Critics of Kafka, he says, must be aware that their approaches are guided by the principles that Kafka's fiction identifies, dramatizes, and rejects.

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