Preface; Abbreviations for Kafka Citations; Introduction: Beginnings; CHAPTER 1 In the Circle of "The Judgment"; CHAPTER 2 The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise; CHAPTER 3 Medial Interferences in The Trial Or, res in Media; CHAPTER 4 Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony"; CHAPTER 5 Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity; CHAPTER 6 Something to Do with the Truth Kafka's Later Stories; CHAPTER 7 "A Faith Like a Guillotine" Kafka on Skepticism; CHAPTER 8 Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature; CHAPTER 9 Adorno's "Notes on Kafka" A Critical Reconstruction.
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On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibili.
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Lambent traces.
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.