Kafka and Dostoyevsky

The Shaping of Influence
1992. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-1-349-21862-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 237 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 322 g

This book evaluates the importance of Dostoyevsky's life and imaginative fiction as a stimulus to Kafka's own writing. Dostoyevskian material is situated within detailed readings of particular works. The principle sources discussed are The Double, Notes from Underground, Crime and Punishment, and Dostoyevsky's (auto) biography. It is argued that Kafka's use of Dostoyevsky is driven by antagonism as much as by admiration.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dodd, W J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Key to Abbreviations - Introduction - Kafka's Russia - A Friend in St Petersburg?: Das Urteil - Mr Golyadkin: Die Verwandlung (I) - Underground Men: Die Verwandlung (II) - Punishments and Crimes: Der Prozess - Dostoyevsky Underground: In der Strafkolonie - Coda: Errinnerungen an die Kaldabahn, Der Unterstaatsanwalt, Der Dorfschullehrer - The Narrative Problem - Kafka's Dostoyevsky: Conclusions and Questions - Notes - Bibliography - Index