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Kafka and Photography (Hardcover)
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Kafka and Photography (Hardcover)
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Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a
medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and
the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the
medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as
an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which
explore photography from a variety of different perspectives By far
the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in
Kafka's texts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to
visuality more generally. This study not only explores
photography's recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also
the first to take systematic account of Kafka's use of photographs
as literary source material.
Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern
writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on
familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka's
engagement with his time and context. Providing a chronological
account of key prose works, as well as the personal writings, this
study is accessible to students and lay readers. It will be of
interest not only to literary scholars but also to those working in
photography, media, and cultural studies. Its detailed textual
analyses are set against a richly documented historical context
which illustrates Kafka's interest in contemporary culture through
a range of visual material taken from public as well as private
sources - some of which has only recently become available. As this
book demonstrates, photography had a profound impact on Kafka's
literary imagination and as such helps to explain the mesmerizing
intensity of enigmatic visual detail which is a hallmark of
hisnarratives.
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