Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)

Medin, Daniel L.

ISBN 10: 0810125684 / ISBN 13: 9780810125681

Edité par Northwestern University Press, 2010

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Handful of pages with notes/underlining; limited wear.

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• Titre: Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald (Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies)
• Éditeur: Northwestern University Press
• Date de parution: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0810125684
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780810125681
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

DANIEL MEDIN is currently a fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Technical University of Berlin. He has taught comparative and English literature at Stanford University and at Washington University in St. Louis.