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Princeton. 2004. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0691118167. 288 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Franz Kafka Literary Criticism Literature Germany. FROM THE PUBLISHER - On 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…
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THE IMPORTANCE FOR Kafka of writing his first great story "The Judgment" cannot be overestimated.
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- Title Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka
- Author Stanley Corngold
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 262
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
- Date July 6, 2004
- ISBN 9780691118161 / 0691118167
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6 x 0.9 in (23.50 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Kafka, Franz - Criticism and interpretation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003057399
- Dewey Decimal Code 833.912
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