Kafka: a Guide for the Perplexed : A Guide for the Perplexed

✍ Scribed by Clayton Koelb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year: 2010
Tongue: English
Leaves: 192
Series: Guides for the Perplexed Ser.
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. Some might say that Kafka's enduring achievement has been to make his readers love being perplexed. As much of Kafka's writing is designed to perplex the reader, this guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's text and to realize what the uses of such perplexity might be. The book guides readers through their first encounters with Kafka and introduces the problems involved in reading his texts, the nature of his texts from the key novels and novellas to letters and professional writings, his life as a writer and different approaches to reading Kafka.

✦ Subjects

Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation. ; Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Biography.

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