Kafka's travels : exoticism, colonialism, and the traffic of writing /
John Zilcosky.
- New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- 336 p. ; 22 cm.
Originally published: Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003.
This text argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of his complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day, and thus re-reads Kafka's major works through the lens of fin-de-siecle travel culture.