02558nam 22004815 450 991027235440332120210310190628.01-5017-2281-610.7591/9781501722813(CKB)4340000000258192(MiAaPQ)EBC5317498(DE-B1597)496448(OCoLC)1028953280(DE-B1597)9781501722813(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/89092(EXLCZ)99434000000025819220180924d2018 fg engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierFranz Kafka The Necessity of Form /Stanley CorngoldCornell University Press2018Ithaca, NY :Cornell University Press,[2018]©19901 online resource (321 pages)Includes index.1-5017-2779-6 1-5017-2282-4 9781501727795 Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Acknowledgments --Abbreviations for Kafka Citations --Introduction --PART I KAFKA'S CAREER --PART II Kafka's C ontext --Excursus on Method --IndexIn Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka's work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka's art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka's rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. Kafka's distinctive narrative strategies, Corngold points out, demand interpretation at the same time they resist it. Critics of Kafka, he says, must be aware that their approaches are guided by the principles that Kafka's fiction identifies, dramatizes, and rejects.Authors, Austrian20th centuryBiographyAuthors, Austrian833/.912 BCorngold Stanley446214DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910272354403321Franz Kafka2719558UNINA