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Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing

Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing

Zilcosky, J.

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ISBN10: 1403967679
ISBN13: 9781403967671
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Aug 10 2005
Pages: 289
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.73 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.24
Language: English
In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika, The Trial, The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

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