Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial
Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 162
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Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 162
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780139263378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Legend Press
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1789559537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the Legend Classics series It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. A novel of such ambiguity will inevitably lend itself to a diversity of interpretation, but in The Trial you can at least be sure to find every element of storytelling now defined as Kafkaesque. Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his thirtieth birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze. The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you? The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales
Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 136
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Published: 1968
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Espen Hammer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-23
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190461489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKKafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.
Author: Stewart Smith
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 3319755358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.
Author: Robert Hariman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1995-10
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226316291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAcknowledgmentsCh. 1: IntroductionCh. 2: No Superficial Attractions and Ornaments: The Invention of Modernity in Machiavelli's Realist StyleCh. 3: No One Is in Charge Here: Ryszard Kapuscinski's Anatomy of the Courtly StyleCh. 4: In Oratory as in Life: Civic Performance in Cicero's Republican StyleCh. 5: A Boarder in One's Own Home: Franz Kafka's Parables of the Bureaucratic StyleCh. 6: ConclusionNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 1438115989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith an empathy for the absurd and an intimate understanding of human frustration, Franz Kafka has produced a body of work that offers an intriguing mix of paradox and parable. In this informative volume, Harold Bloom and noted literary critics guide read
Author: Robert Louis Jackson
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA slender volume in which several international critics write their opinions and interpretations of this classic Russian novel.