Kafka's travels : exoticism, colonialism, and the traffic of writing / John Zilcosky.
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TextPublication details: New York ; Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005Description: 336 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 9781403967671 (pbk.) :; 1403967679 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 833.9'12 Summary: 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.
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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.
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