Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work - Hardcover

Beck, Evelyn Torton

 
9780299058814: Kafka and the Yiddish Theater: Its Impact on His Work

Synopsis

Franz Kafka's sudden emergence as a mature writer, after years of artistic failure, came with the 1912 publication of 'The Judgment.' Here he displayed for the first time the strong dramatic style characteristic of his most familiar works. Until now, this stylistic change had not been satisfactorily explained. Evelyn Torton Beck, in this engrossing comparative study, demonstrates it to be in large measure Kafka's intense involvement with the Yiddish theater.

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