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Reading Kafka in Prague: On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent

Reading Kafka in Prague: On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Veronika TuckerováPublish date:6/12/2025Pages:344
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765118375UPC:9798765118375Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, European, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCWTMW2WTA

Reading Kafka in Prague: On Translation, Samizdat, Censorship, Export, and Dissent

An untold history of Franz Kafka's reception in his homeland under two totalitarian regimes, from his death in 1924 tothe end of communism 1989.

In the first book-length study of the reception of Kafka in his homeland, Czechoslovakia, Veronika Tuckerová offers a contextualized understanding of the author by focusing on the period from his death to the end of the communist era in 1989. Using a...

Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9798765118375UPC:9798765118375Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Comparative Literature, European, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 inchesWeight:1.3823Product ID:SCWTMW2WTA
Veronika Tuckerová teaches Czech at Harvard University, USA. She is a native of Prague and studied at Prague's Charles University, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Columbia University where she received a PhD in German and Comparative Literature. She has published articles in journals such as New German Critique and Journal of World Literature, and translated from and...
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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