...); Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form (Cornell U P, 1988); Borrowed Lives (with Irene Giersing) (State U of New York P, 1991); Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature (Stanford U P, 1998; and most recently Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (Princeton U P, 2004...

... in parentheses directly in the main text. 5 Franz Kafka, The Complete Stories, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer, tr. Willa and Edwin Muir (New York: Schocken, 1971), 225. Franz Kafka, "Ein Landarzt," in Ein Landarzt and andere Drucke zu Lebzeiten, ed. Hans-Gerd Koch (Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1994...

... Franz Kafka, a great writer because he was a man maimed by and guilty of a literary perfection that was, at the same time, human mutila- tion. But without Franz Kafka we would not know what it means to be Amshel, what such a life could mean to the writer it eluded...

... the indefinite postponement of justice through law, exposing in the end a form of legal violence indistinguishable from criminality. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 detention Franz Kafka law justice fiction But what sense of fiction do we mean? A fiction can be a falsification...

... Modern, 2008), 78. 11. Paul B. Haviland quoted in 291 no. 7– 8 (September–October 1915): 1. 12. Franz Kafka, “The Cares of a Family Man,” in Collected Short Sto- ries, ed. Nahum N. Glazer (New York: Schocken, 1971), 427– 29. Fig. 1. Claire Fontaine, Untitled (Brand), 2011. Forged...

... of a writer who engages in a similar style is Franz Kafka (although with more of an Martel: Nietzsche’s Cruel Messiah 217 emphasis on disappointment per se than on cruelty in his case). In his texts we see a similar sort of messiah, one who comes into the world...

... article “. . . wrestling with (my God!) my God: Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief” appeared in Qui Parle 21:2, 2013. ☾ ☾ ☾ Who speaks? It is, as Franz Kafka knew, the force of the non-I in speech, discourse, and writing: Mir immer unbegreiflich, daß es fast jedem, der schreiben kann, möglich ist...

... großer Rabbi gesagt hat, daß er nicht mit Gewalt die Welt verändern wolle, sondern nur um ein Geringes sie zurechtstellen werde.” Walter Ben- jamin, “Franz Kafka,” in Gesammelte Schriften, vol. 4 (Suhrkamp, 1990), 432. My translation. 15. Timothy...

... Bass, Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). Leora Batnitsky, Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). Esther Benbassa and Aron Rodrigue...

...: for this reason, Blumenberg can helpfully present Work on Myth as a monumental gloss on a comment in Franz Kafka's correspondence that "the whole pantheon" amounted to nothing more or other than "a means by which the determining forces could be kept at a distance from man's...

..., a structure that sets up a kind of law—illusory, to be sure—that is perhaps similar to the one Jacques Derrida recites in his essay on Franz Kafka’s “Before the Law,” where the law, supposedly universal, accessible to all, and therefore unlocatable, takes place as prohibition. 39 Yet in his opening...

.... This is no small feat. One of the. techniques by which Fried brings Menzel's art to life is through a series of wide-ranging analogies with artists, writ- ers, and philosophers of the period: Soren Kierkegaard, Gustave Courbet, Eakins, Theodor Fontane, Henry David Thoreau, Karl Marx, and Franz Kafka...

... for personal and family reasons, and being disappointed by the emptiness of civi- lization on the East Coast, he began an anthropological voyage that led him, in 1895, from the Smithsonian Institution to the Pueblo territories in Arizona, though not without forgetting about Franz Boas in New York...

...- culate constantly throughout his own writings on aesthetics and, while the pantheon that emerges has been criticized for its exclu- sive focus on European high modernism, one can gainsay few of his choices within that paradigm. Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, and Arnold...