LEADER 01412nam 2200193 a 4500
001 295999
003 TNML
005 20131113101259.0
008 180321s2004 enka g b 001 0deng
020 $a9780192804556 (pbk.) :$cNT$480$
035 $a783782
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dBAKER$dBTCTA$dMUQ$dYDXCP$dIXA$dSMP$dUBA$dHNW$dHEBIS$dDEBBG$dOCLCQ$dCDX$dA7U$dDEBSZ$dTULIB$dBDX
082 00$a833.912$222
100 1 $aRobertson, Ritchie.
245 10$aKafka :$ba very short introduction /$cRitchie Robertson.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2004.
300 $a136 p. :$bill. ;$c18 cm.
490 1 $aVery short introductions ;$v115.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 126) and index.
505 0 $aLife and myth -- Reading Kafka -- Bodies -- Institutions -- The last things.
520 1 $a"Kafka's fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker isarrested by a mysterious court, and a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and thepossibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed 'the death of God'. This up-to-date and accessible portrait of a fascinating author shows us ways to read andmake sense of his perplexing and absorbing work."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10$aKafka, Franz,$d1883-1924.
600 10$aKafka, Franz,$d1883-1924$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0$aAuthors, Austrian$y20th century$vBiography.
830 0$aVery short introductions ;$v115.