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

by John Zilcosky

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312232810
• ISBN13: 9780312232818
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.7"