Understanding Franz Kafka

Informationen zum Autor Allen Thiher is Curators' Distinguished Professor of Romance Languages Emeritus at the University of Missouri-Columbia and is a permanent fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge University. His books include Understanding Marcel Proust and Understanding Robert Musil, both published by the University of South Carolina Press, as well as studies of Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Raymond Queneau, an earlier study of Kafka, and books on French cinema, literary theory, and science and literature. He lives in retirement with his wife in Sofia, Bulgaria. Klappentext Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In Understanding Franz Kafka! Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka's work by analysing it in terms of its chronological unfolding! emphasizing the various phases in Kafka's life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing. Zusammenfassung Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In Understanding Franz Kafka! Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka's work by analysing it in terms of its chronological unfolding! emphasizing the various phases in Kafka's life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing.

Product details

• Authors: Allen Thiher
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781611178289
• ISBN: 978-1-61117-828-9
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature; Understanding Modern European; Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies