The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority
Costas Despiniadis, Stelios Kapsomenos
Few twentieth-century writers remain as potent as Franz Kafka—one of the rare figures to maintain both a major presence in the academy and on the shelves of general readers. Yet, remarkably, no work has yet fully focused on his politics and anti-authoritarian sensibilities.The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authorityis a fascinating new look at his widely known novels and stories (includingThe Trial,Metamorphosis,In the Penal ColonyandAmerika), portraying him as a powerful critic of authority, bureaucracy, capitalism, law, patriarchy, and prisons. Making deft use of Kafka’s diaries, his friends’ memoirs, and his original sketches, Costas Despiniadis addresses his active participation in Prague’s anarchist circles, his wide interest in anarchist authors, his skepticism about the Russian Revolution, and his ambivalent relationship with utopian Zionism. The portrait of Kafka that emerges is striking and fresh—rife with insights and a refusal to accept the structures of power that dominated his society.
Year:
2019
Publisher:
Black Rose Books
Language:
english
Pages:
148
ISBN 10:
1551646560
ISBN 13:
9781551646565
File:
PDF, 2.74 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2019
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