Journal of the Kafka Society of America, Volume 26, Issues 1-2The Society, 2004 |
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... figure for repressed or forgotten aspects of Jewish life finds expression in Walter Benjamin's 1934 Kafka essay , as well as in Benjamin's letters to Gershom Scholem . One might begin by recalling Benjamin's famous allusion to animals ...
... figure for repressed or forgotten aspects of Jewish life finds expression in Walter Benjamin's 1934 Kafka essay , as well as in Benjamin's letters to Gershom Scholem . One might begin by recalling Benjamin's famous allusion to animals ...
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... figure of Gracchus Kafka has replaced the Wandering Jew with the Wandering German in order to excoriate the narrow - minded nationalism of German - speaking Central Europe . And could there be a more poetic form of justice for the ...
... figure of Gracchus Kafka has replaced the Wandering Jew with the Wandering German in order to excoriate the narrow - minded nationalism of German - speaking Central Europe . And could there be a more poetic form of justice for the ...
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... figure of a player , Don Quixote the fantasizer , who undermines - much more than he cements- the union between petite and grande histoire . Abraham transforms himself into the knight of the woeful figure . No mediation can come to pass ...
... figure of a player , Don Quixote the fantasizer , who undermines - much more than he cements- the union between petite and grande histoire . Abraham transforms himself into the knight of the woeful figure . No mediation can come to pass ...
Contents
In Kafkas Synagogue | 11 |
Literature as Historiography Franz Kafkas Concept of | 35 |
Franz Kafkas Place in History | 43 |
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