9781403967671 / Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing Paperback – August 10, 2005
by Palgrave Macmillan; First Edition (August 10, 2005) (Author)
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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