Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts: Studies on Language and Literature - Tapa blanda

Nekula, Marek

 
9788024629353: Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts: Studies on Language and Literature
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ISBN 10: 8024629356 ISBN 13: 9788024629353
Editorial: Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic, 2016

Sinopsis

Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has been conflicted. While rescuing Kafka from years of censorship and neglect, Czech critics of the 1960s "overwrote" his German and Jewish literary and cultural contexts in order to focus on his Czech cultural connections. Seeking to rediscover Kafka's multiple backgrounds, in Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts Marek Nekula focuses on Kafka's Jewish social and literary networks in Prague, his German and Czech bilingualism, and his knowledge of Yiddish and Hebrew. Kafka's bilingualism is discussed in the context of contemporary essentialist views of a writer's "organic" language and identity. Nekula also pays particular attention to Kafka's education, examining his studies of Czech language and literature as well as its role in his intellectual life. The book concludes by asking how Kafka "read" his urban environment, looking at the readings of Prague encoded in his fictional and non-fictional texts.

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Marek Nekula is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is the author, in German, of Franz Kafkas Sprachen.

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Editorial
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
8024629356
ISBN 13 
9788024629353
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Número de páginas
300
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