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<p>this Is The First Book About Kafka That Uses The Writer's Medical Records. Gillman Explores The Relation Of The Body To Cultural Myths, And Brings A Unique And Fascinating Perspective To Kafka's Life And Writings.</p><h3>library Journal</h3><p>in This Sometimes Rambling Psychohistory Of Anti-semitism In Fin-de-sicle Europe, Gillman, President-elect Of The Modern Language Association, Implies That Internalized Jewish Emasculation, As Seen In Kafka, And The Shattering Of The New, Fragile Trust In The Rule Of Law Caused By The Dreyfus Affair Were Among The Antecedents Of The Rise Of Nazism. Kafka Internalized The Notion, Firmly Implanted In The European Mind, Of The Jew As A Sick Body. Kafka's Own Tuberculosis Even Fit The Theorylater Tested In Death-camp Experimentsthat Physical Inferiority Rendered Jews Unable To Resist That Disease. Examined In The Light Of Kafka's Own Medical Records, Many Of His Stories, Like In The Penal Colony, Reflect This Idea Of The Jewish Body Testifying To Its Own Unworthiness. Documentation, Including Illustrations From Popular Magazines, Is Abundant In Gillman's Work. Unfortunately, So Is Psychobabblewhich Often Recasts Logical Contradiction As Disgui

Author

Sander Lawrence Gilman

Publisher

London: Routledge

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134715541

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Memoir