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Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts
Marek Nekula
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paperback. CZ;SK Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 420.
Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has been conflicted. While rescuing Kafka from years of censorship and neglect, Czech critics of the 1960s "overwrote" his German and Jewish literary and cultural contexts in order to focus on his Czech cultural connections. Seeking to rediscover Kafka's multiple backgrounds, in Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts Marek Nekula focuses on Kafka's Jewish social and literary networks in Prague, his German and Czech bilingualism, and his knowledge of Yiddish and Hebrew. Kafka's bilingualism ... Read more
Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally. However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has been conflicted. While rescuing Kafka from years of censorship and neglect, Czech critics of the 1960s "overwrote" his German and Jewish literary and cultural contexts in order to focus on his Czech cultural connections. Seeking to rediscover Kafka's multiple backgrounds, in Franz Kafka and His Prague Contexts Marek Nekula focuses on Kafka's Jewish social and literary networks in Prague, his German and Czech bilingualism, and his knowledge of Yiddish and Hebrew. Kafka's bilingualism ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Ovocny, Czechia
ISBN
9788024629353
SKU
V9788024629353
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About Marek Nekula
Marek Nekula is professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Regensburg, Germany. He is the author, in German, of Franz Kafkas Sprachen.
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