Constructive Destruction: Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation

by Richard T. Gray

The study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists. Emphasis is placed on the role of the aphorism in the development of Kafka's literary creativity. Aphoristic discourse presented itself to Kafka as a possible manner of resolving specific conflicts in his life and art, above all the crisis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3484180919
• ISBN13: 9783484180918
• Release Date: December 1987
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary