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Kafka's Jewish Languages - The Hidden Openness of Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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Kafka's Jewish Languages - The Hidden Openness of Tradition (Hardcover, New)
Series: Haney Foundation Series
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After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were
published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in
Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as
to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a
century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel,
and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish
Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer
into focus. David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew
that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish
sources crucial to the development of Kafka's style, the book
demonstrates the intimate relationship between the author's Jewish
modes of expression and the larger literary significance of his
works. Suchoff shows how "The Judgment" evokes Yiddish as a
language of comic curse and examines how Yiddish, African American,
and culturally Zionist voices appear in the unfinished novel,
Amerika. In his reading of The Trial, Suchoff highlights the black
humor Kafka learned from the Yiddish theater, and he interprets The
Castle in light of Kafka's involvement with the renewal of the
Hebrew language. Finally, he uncovers the Yiddish and Hebrew
meanings behind Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-Folk"
and considers the recent legal case in Tel Aviv over the possession
of Kafka's missing manuscripts as a parable of the transnational
meanings of his writing.
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