France/Kafka: An Author in Theory John T. Hamilton

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• ISBN 13: 9798765100387
• Author: John T. Hamilton

While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka’s reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition. Hamilton also considers how Kafka’s unique literary corpus came to stimulate reflection in diverse movements, critical approaches, and philosophical schools, from surrealism and existentialism through psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and structuralism to Marxism, deconstruction, and feminism. The story of Kafka’s afterlife in Paris thus furnishes a key chapter in the unfolding of French theory, which continues to guide how we read literature and understand its relationship to the world.

Table contents:

I. Gradus ad Parnassum
• The Writer and the Author in Theory
• Through a Glass, Darkly
• To the Louvre
• An Improbable Apparition
• A Second Life
II. Metamorphoses
• Naturalization Papers
• Amid Intimacy and Exoticism
• Universal Man
• Dreams, Rivers, Snow
• Translative Decisions
• Bifurcations
III. Trials
• Paratexts
• The Adventurer
• The Saint
• A Certain Plume
• Extremism
• Non liquet
IV. Contingencies
• Preoccupations
• Nothing but Nothing
• Seasickness on Land
• Phantom War
• Homo absurdus
• Impossible Hope
• Objective Style
V. Judgments
• Upside Down, Right Side Up
• Disengagement
• Incendiaries
• The Child
• The Author in Theater
VI. Labyrinths
• Signs of Change
• The New New
• Rhizomes
• Primal Scenes
• Derrida’s Pharmacy

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