{"product_id":"expeditions-to-kafka-selected-essays-paperback","title":"Expeditions to Kafka: Selected Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStanley Corngold\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's \u003ci\u003eThe Sufferings of Young Werther\u003c\/i\u003e; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven as Corngold explores Kafka's work across different fields and tangents, he does so in vivid, readable prose, free of jargon, and with an eye to Kafka's ongoing relevance to the concerns of his day and ours. Taken together these linked essays reveal Kafka in his astonishing many-sidedness.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStanley Corngold \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of 10 books, including, \u003ci\u003eThe Mind in Exile \u003c\/i\u003e(Princeton University Press, 2022). He has edited 11 books, including the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka's \u003ci\u003eSelected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (ed. and trans., with preface, notes and critical apparatus) and the Modern Library edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Metamorphosis\u003c\/i\u003e by Franz Kafka (ed. and trans., with introduction, notes, and critical materials).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.02 x 8.9 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 07, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67927594926334,"sku":"9798765100417","price":55.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/5kdH5HRcm29798765100417.webp?v=1793462520","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/expeditions-to-kafka-selected-essays-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}