Animal in the Synagogue - Franz Kafka''s Jewishness

This book argues that both Franz Kafka's personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.

List of contents

Translator's Introduction
First Part: Forest-Animal
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Second Part: The Three Impossibilities
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Works Cited
About the Author

About the author

By Dan Miron

Summary

This book argues that both Franz Kafka’s personality and his literary activity were perceived by himself as exemplifying the modern Jewish predicament of aspiring to modernity while being tied to a past-civilization, thus finding oneself struggling in a vacuum.

Product details

• Authors: Dan Miron, Miron Dan
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498595131
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9513-1
• No. of pages: 166
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Li; Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Judentum, Bezug zu Juden und jüdischen Gruppen, Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein, RELIGION / Judaism / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Judaism, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities