4: What Kafka Learned from Flaubert: “Absent-Minded Window-Gazing” and “The Judgment”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. List of Abbreviations for Kafka Citations xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1: Running Texts, Stunning Drafts 24
7. 2: “Torturing the Gordian Knot”: Kafka and Metaphor 48
8. 3: Nietzsche and Kafka: The Dionysian Connection 64
9. 4: What Kafka Learned from Flaubert: “Absent-Minded Window-Gazing” and “The Judgment” 75
10. 5: Kafka’s Racial Melancholy 89
11. 6: Strange Loops and the Absent Center in The Castle 105
12. 7: Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Josef K. 120
13. 8: Kafka, Goffman, and the Total Institution 136
14. 9: Kafka in Virilio’s Teletopical City 151
15. 10: Kafka’s Visual Method: The Gaze, the Cinematic, and the Intermedial 165
16. 11: “Samsa war Reisender”: Trains, Trauma, and the Unreadable Body 179
17. 12: The Comfort of Strangeness: Correlating the Kafkaesque and the Kafkan in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled 207
18. 13: Kafka’s Journey into the Future: Crossing Borders into Israeli/Palestinian Worlds 222
19. 14: Kafka and Italy: A New Perspective on the Italian Literary Landscape 237
20. Bibliography 251
21. Notes on the Contributors 273
22. Index 277