Kafka's Travels
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Kafka's Travels

Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 29 Dec |Learn more

Kafka's Travels

Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing

About this book

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 biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika, The Trial, The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2016
Print ISBN
9780312232818
eBook ISBN
9781137076373
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Letteratura generale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. List of Ilustrations
  9. Note on Abbreviations and Translations
  10. Introduction Kafka’s Travels?
  11. Chapter One Transcending the Exotic: Nostalgia, Exoticism, and Kafka’s Early Travel Novel, Richard and Samuel
  12. Chapter Two The “America” Novel: Learning How to Get Lost
  13. Chapter Three Traveling at Home: The Trial and the Exotic Heimat
  14. Chapter Four Savage Travel: Sadism and Masochism in Kafka’s Penal Colony
  15. Chapter Five Of Sugar Barons and Land Surveyors: Colonial Visions in Schaffstein’s Little Green Books and The Castle
  16. Chapter Six The Traffic of Writing: Technologies of Intercourse in the Letters to Milena
  17. Chapter Seven Travel, Death, and the Exotic Voyage Home: “The Hunter Gracchus”
  18. Epilogue Kafka’s Final Journey
  19. Notes
  20. Works Cited
  21. Index