University Press of America
Pages: 288
Trim: 5½ x 8½
978-0-7618-2141-0 • Paperback • December 2001 • $86.99 • (£67.00)
978-1-4616-8148-9 • eBook • December 2001 • $82.50 • (£63.00)
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.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Franz Kafka- The Jewish Element in His Life
Chapter 3 Max Brod and Marthe Robert- The Background of Their Philosophical Approaches
Chapter 4 Modes of Criticism
Chapter 5 Max Brod and the Religious Moment (A Metaphysical View)
Chapter 6 Marthe Robert and the Duality of Identity (Psychoanalytical-Structural Approach)
Chapter 7 Summary
Chapter 8 Endnotes
Chapter 9 Bibliography
Chapter 10 Index
'Franz Kafka: A Question of Jewish Identity'. . . is a meticulously presented, in-depth focus on life, philosophy, and Jewish identity of the renowned author Franz Kafka. . . highly recommended for students of Kafka's writings as an unusually thoughtful, albeit sometimes technical account of the man, his life, thought, and work.
— The Bookwatch
Loeb's attempt to find middle ground between two competing perspectives (Max Brod's overly optimistic theological appraisal of Kafka's aesthetic achievement and Marthe Robert's 'psychoanalytic-structural' approach) yields some provocative insights intothe triangulating effects of Kafka's multiple alienation as an assimilated Jew writing in German in the Czech city of Prague.
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Loeb's attempt to find middle ground between two competing perspectives (Max Brod's overly optimistic theological appraisal of Kafka's aesthetic achievement and Marthe Robert's 'psychoanalytic-structural' approach) yields some provocative insights into the triangulating effects of Kafka's multiple alienation as an assimilated Jew writing in German in the Czech city of Prague.
— Choice
'Franz Kafka: A Question of Jewish Identity'. . . is a meticulously presented, in-depth focus on life, philosophy, and Jewish identity of the renowned author Franz Kafka. . . highly recommended for students of Kafka's writings as an unusually thoughtful, albeit sometimes technical account of the man, his life, thought, and work.
— The Bookwatch