Franz Kafka: A Question of Jewish Identity
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- ISBN 9780761821410
- Weight: 376g
- Dimensions: 140 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 26 Dec 2001
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Franz Kafka, the Jewish writer from Prague, who wrote in German, grew up after the Emancipation at a time when most Jews in Central and Western Europe suffered from an identity crisis. The most prominent characteristic of the experience of this generation of young people was "hybridism," a kind of partial assimilation that brought them to a dead-end. In Franz Kafka: A Question of Jewish Identity, Sara Loeb examines this complex dialectic, focusing on the question of if, how, and to what extent Kafka's works reflect the identity crisis he suffered. She offers a new perspective of his life through an encounter between the points of view of two well-known critics: Max Brod, Kafka's close friend, and Marthe Rober, a literary critic who translated Kafka's works into French. Each seeks to examine, in a different way, the source of Kafka's link to his Jewishness. Loeb opens a window to Kafka's inner world, and examines the man and his work from a new perspective.
Sara Loeb, MA in French Literature and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Bar-Ilan University, specializes in inter-disciplinary research on Western culture, Central European Judaism, and Holocaust Literature.
