Chapter 10. On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in Amerika

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. Abbreviations for Kafka Citations xvii
5. Introduction: Beginnings 1
6. Chapter 1. In the Circle of “The Judgment” 13
7. Chapter 2. The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise 37
8. Chapter 3. Medial Interferences in The Trial 51
9. Chapter 4. Allotria and Excreta in “In the Penal Colony” 67
10. Chapter 5. Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity 94
11. Chapter 6. Something to Do with the Truth 111
12. Chapter 7. “A Faith Like a Guillotine” 126
13. Chapter 8. Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature 142
14. Chapter 9. Adorno’s “Notes on Kafka” 158
15. Chapter 10. On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in Amerika 176
16. Chapter 11. The Trouble with Cultural Studies 194
17. Notes 205
18. Acknowledgments 253
19. Index 255