LEADER 03931nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910807886303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-12954-6 010 $a9786612129544 010 $a1-4008-2613-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826131 035 $a(CKB)1000000000756341 035 $a(EBL)445467 035 $a(OCoLC)646805570 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000188512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11171961 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000188512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10144518 035 $a(PQKB)10486174 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36345 035 $a(DE-B1597)446420 035 $a(OCoLC)979725552 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826131 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445467 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284105 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445467 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000756341 100 $a20030702d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLambent traces $eFranz Kafka /$fStanley Corngold 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (288 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-11816-7 311 0 $a0-691-12780-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAbbreviations for Kafka Citations --$tIntroduction: Beginnings --$tChapter 1. In the Circle of "The Judgment" --$tChapter 2. The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise --$tChapter 3. Medial Interferences in The Trial --$tChapter 4. Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony" --$tChapter 5. Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity --$tChapter 6. Something to Do with the Truth --$tChapter 7. "A Faith Like a Guillotine" --$tChapter 8. Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature --$tChapter 9. Adorno's "Notes on Kafka" --$tChapter 10. On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in Amerika --$tChapter 11. The Trouble with Cultural Studies --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aOn the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring "the limits of the human." At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting--with incomparable irony--their virtual impossibility. At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confessional writing, the dream, the media, the idea of marriage, skepticism, asceticism, and the imitation of death. Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka concludes with a reconstruction and critique of the approaches to Kafka by such major critics as Adorno, Gilman, and Deleuze and Guattari. 606 $aGerman literature 615 0$aGerman literature. 676 $a833.912 700 $aCorngold$b Stanley$0446214 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807886303321 996 $aLambent traces$94025619 997 $aUNINA