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Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W.G. Sebald

Three Sons: Franz Kafka and the Fiction of J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W.G. Sebald

Medin, Daniel L.

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Series: Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies

Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0810125684
ISBN13: 9780810125681
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Feb 28 2010
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.90
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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