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Excavating Kafka (Hardcover)
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Kafka's features, and that dreaded word, Kafkaesque, are known to
millions who have never read serious literature. Generations of
academics and critics have maintained the image of Franz Kafka as a
tortured seer whose works defy interpretation. In Excavating Kafka
James Hawes reveals the truth that lies beneath the image of a
middle-European Nostradamus with a typographically irresistible
name. The real Franz Kafka was no angst-ridden paranoid but a
well-groomed young man-about-town who frequented brothels, had
regular sex with a penniless-but-pretty girl and subscribed to
upmarket pornography (published by the very man who published
Kafka's first stories). Excavating Kafka debunks a number of key
facets of the Kafka-Myth, including the idea that Kafka was the
archetypal genius neglected in his lifetime; that he was stuck in a
dead-end job and struggling to find time to write; that he was
tormented by fear of sex; that he had a uniquely terrible,
domineering father who had no understanding of his son's needs;
that his literature is mysterious and opaque; that he constructs
fantasy-worlds in which innocent everymen live in fear of
mysterious and totalitarian powers-that-be. Written with the
panache of a supremely gifted comic writer, Excavating Kafka is an
engaging and involving reassessment of a major figure of literary
modernism that will be welcomed and enjoyed by students of Kafka
and by general readers alike.
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