Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction--J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald--have all acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka, both in interviews and in their own academic essays and articles for a general readership about him. In this striking feat of literary scholarship, Daniel Medin finds that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. That writers from such divergent national and ethnic traditions can have such unique critical readings of Kafka, and that Kafka could exert such a powerful influence over their oeuvres, Medin contends, attests to the central place of Kafka in the contemporary literary imagination.
Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald
Paperback
Publication Date: 11/01/2010
- ISBN:
- 9780810125681
- 9780810125681
- Category:
- Literature: history & criticism
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 11-01-2010
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Northwestern University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Dimensions (mm):
- 226.06x149.86x17.78mm
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