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Kafka's Creatures - Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings (Hardcover)
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Kafka's Creatures - Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings (Hardcover)
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There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other
creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's.
Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman
creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in
English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and
ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by
an array of international scholars from various fields, and
represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of
exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures
in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the literary and
philosophical significance of his preoccupation with animals, and
make clear that careful investigation of those creatures
illuminates his core concerns: the nature of power; the
inescapability of history and guilt; the dangers, promise, and
strangeness of the alienation endemic to modern life; the human
propensity for cruelty and oppression; the limits and conditions of
humanity and the risks of dehumanization; the nature of
authenticity; family life; Jewishness; and the nature of language
and art. Thus the essays in this volume enrich our understanding of
Kafka's work as a whole. Especially striking is the extent to which
the articles collected here bring into focus the ways in which
Kafka anticipated many of the recent developments in contemporary
thinking about nonhuman animals.
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