The Hunter Gracchus

The Hunter Gracchus
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Publisher : BoD E-Short
Total Pages : 8
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ISBN-10 : 9783734758461
ISBN-13 : 3734758467
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hunter Gracchus by : Franz Kafka

"The Hunter Gracchus" (German: "Der Jäger Gracchus") is a short story by Franz Kafka. The story presents a boat carrying the long-dead Hunter Gracchus as it arrives at a port. The Burgomaster of Riva enters the boat and inside he meets Gracchus, who gives him an account of his death while hunting, and explains that he is destined to wander aimlessly and eternally over the seas. An additional fragment presents an extended dialogue between Gracchus and an unnamed interviewer, presumably the same Burgomaster.

The Hunter Gracchus

The Hunter Gracchus
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Publisher : Catapult
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9781887178556
ISBN-13 : 1887178554
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis The Hunter Gracchus by : Guy Davenport

These essays cover a range of topics, including art and architecture, religion, and literature in a collage of ideas, commentary, and criticism from snake handling to Wallace Stevens.

Kafka's Travels

Kafka's Travels
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9781137076373
ISBN-13 : 1137076372
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis Kafka's Travels by : J. Zilcosky

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

Harrow

Harrow
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781984898807
ISBN-13 : 1984898809
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Harrow by : Joy Williams

In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. "She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New York Times Book Review Khristen is a teenager who, her mother believes, was marked by greatness as a baby when she died for a moment and then came back to life. After Khristen’s failing boarding school for gifted teens closes its doors, and she finds that her mother has disappeared, she ranges across the dead landscape and washes up at a “resort” on the shores of a mysterious, putrid lake the elderly residents there call “Big Girl.” In a rotting honeycomb of rooms, these old ones plot actions to punish corporations and people they consider culpable in the destruction of the final scraps of nature’s beauty. What will Khristen and Jeffrey, the precocious ten-year-old boy she meets there, learn from this “gabby seditious lot, in the worst of health but with kamikaze hearts, an army of the aged and ill, determined to refresh, through crackpot violence, a plundered earth”? Rivetingly strange and beautiful, and delivered with Williams’s searing, deadpan wit, Harrow is their intertwined tale of paradise lost and of their reasons—against all reasonableness—to try and recover something of it.

Franz Kafka's The Castle

Franz Kafka's The Castle
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Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Total Pages : 176
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B3715714
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Franz Kafka's The Castle by : Harold Bloom

Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics)

Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics)
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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Total Pages : 303
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ISBN-10 : 9780008110574
ISBN-13 : 0008110573
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics) by : Franz Kafka

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.

Absentees

Absentees
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 178
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ISBN-10 : 9781942130482
ISBN-13 : 1942130481
Rating : 4/5 (82 Downloads)

Synopsis Absentees by : Daniel Heller-Roazen

An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropology In thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, social, or biological death? Only somebody can become a “nobody,” but, as Daniel Heller-Roazen shows, the ways of being a nonperson are as diverse and complex as they are mysterious and unpredictable. Heller-Roazen treats the variously missing persons of the subtitle in three parts: Vanishings, Lessenings, and Survivals. In each section and with multiple transhistorical and transcultural examples, he challenges the categories that define nonpersons in philosophy, ethics, law, and anthropology. Exclusion, infamy, and stigma; mortuary beliefs and customs; children’s games and state censuses; ghosts and “dead souls” illustrate the lives of those lacking or denied full personhood. In the archives of fiction, Heller-Roazen uncovers figurations of the missing—from Helen of Argos in Troy or Egypt to Hawthorne’s Wakefield, Swift’s Captain Gulliver, Kafka’s undead hunter Gracchus, and Chamisso’s long-lived shadowless Peter Schlemihl. Readers of The Enemy of All and No One’s Ways will find a continuation of those books’ intense intellectual adventures, with unexpected questions and arguments arising every step of the way. In a unique voice, Heller-Roazen’s thought and writing capture the intricacies of the all-too-human absent and absented.

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories

The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 108
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ISBN-10 : 0822007002
ISBN-13 : 9780822007005
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by : Herberth Czermak

Includes the life and background of Franz Kafka, commentaries on the stories, Kafka Jewish influence, his views on existentialism, and more.

Jackals and Arabs

Jackals and Arabs
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Publisher : BoD E-Short
Total Pages : 8
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ISBN-10 : 9783734758454
ISBN-13 : 3734758459
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Jackals and Arabs by : Franz Kafka

"Jackals and Arabs" (German: "Schakale und Araber") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. The story was first published by Martin Buber in the German monthly "Der Jude". It appeared again in the collection "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor") in 1919.