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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,...

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Published in:Modern Language Review Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 357 - 367
Main Author: Swales, Martin
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Modern Humanities Research Association Apr1981
Subjects:
Literary style
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
Criticism
Metaphor
Literature
Rhetoric
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