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The Prague Circle - Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel and Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies (Hardcover)
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The Prague Circle - Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel and Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies (Hardcover)
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A group of mostly Jewish German-speaking writers, the Prague Circle
included some of the most significant figures in modern Western
literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz Werfel,
Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminal
dramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and essays on
aesthetics. The writers of the Prague Circle were bound together
not by a common perspective or a particular ideology, but by shared
experiences and interests. From their vantage point in the Bohemian
capital during the early decades of the twentieth century, they
witnessed first-hand the collapse of the familiar and predictable,
if not entirely comfortable, monarchical old order and the ascent
of an anxious and uncertain modern era that led inexorably to
fascism, militarization, and war. In order to deal with their new
challenges, they considered strategies as diverse and oppositional
as the members of the Prague Circle themselves. Their responses
were shaped to various degrees by Catholicism, Zionism,
expressionism, activism, anti-activism, international solidarity
with the working class, and transcendence. Stephen Shearier
explores how these authors aligned themselves on the spectrum of
the Activism Debate, which preceded the much studied Expressionist
Debate by a generation. This study examines the critical reception
of these influential literary figures to determine how their
legacies have been shaped.
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