SexViolHist Bib: Representations: Literary Texts: Franz Kafka

»Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 - 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer based in Prague, who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the novella The Metamorphosis and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe absurd situations like those depicted in his writing.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Whitlark, James S. »Kafka's parodies of sexual homicide.« Journal of the Kafka Society of America 22 (1998): 70-80.

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Das Schloss (English: The Castle) (Novel)

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»The Castle (German: Das Schloss, also spelled Das Schloß) is the last novel by Franz Kafka. In it a protagonist known only as "K." arrives in a village and struggles to gain access to the mysterious authorities who govern it from a castle supposedly owned by Count Westwest.« -- More information: Wikipedia

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[Info] Preston, Thomas. »Amalia Too: Kafka's Binnenerzählung of Systemic Sexual Abuse in Das Schloss.« Forty-Third Conference of the German Studies Association. San Diego 2019.