France/Kafka: An Author in Theory

by John T. Hamilton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B5MHRHBB
• ISBN13: 9798765100363
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"