Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing
  • Published Year: 2003
  • Page count: 300
  • File Size: 7 MB
  • Language: English
  • Published by: Palgrave Macmillan US
  • Visited by: 216
  • Rating/Review: 5.0
  • ISBN: 978-1-4039-6767-1
    978-1-137-07637-3

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Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing

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In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

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Nov. 8, 2025, 8:06 a.m.

Kafka’s Travels examines how exoticism, colonialism, and travel shaped his writing, revealing connections between cultural encounters and literary creativity.

ondrej9
ondrej9

Nov. 8, 2025, 8:07 a.m.

Kafka’s Travels examines how exoticism, colonialism, and travel shaped his writing, revealing connections between cultural encounters and literary creativity. Good for bachelors work.

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