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

Dan Miron is Leonard Kaye Professor of Hebrew and comparative literature at Columbia University.

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
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2021
• EAN: 9781498595155
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9515-5
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Li; Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism