WHY READ KAFKA?
The article focuses on the literary work of Austrian-Czech writer Franz Kafka. Kafka's art is undeniably close to the man's own ravaging, indeed pathological, uncertainties. This invites the invocation of that modish and simplistic article of faith which asserts that pathology is somehow more true,...
| Publicado en: | Modern Language Review Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 357 - 367 |
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| Formato: | Literary Criticism |
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Modern Humanities Research Association
Apr1981
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