Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing: The Struggle Between Father and Son - Hardcover

Raymond Armstrong

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 031221541X ISBN 13: 9780312215415

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1999

Synopsis

This is the first major study of the extraordinary affinity between these two heavyweights of 20th-century literature. As well as offering a bold new interpretation of the struggle between father and son in Kafka's classic stories "The Judgement" and "The Metamorphosis," Armstrong seeks to assess and document the extent to which Pinter had been influenced by this Kafkaian archetype. Three of Pinter's plays--"The Homecoming," "Family Voices" and "Moonlight" --are examined in depth, the last two perhaps more comprehensively than ever before.

About this title

About the Author

Raymond Armstrong is a lecturer at the University of Ulster.

Review

'Armstrong, who [writes with flair, eloquence, and panache,] has read widely, frequently citing from Kafka's prose, letters, and diaries, as well as from many of Pinter's plays...Armstrong's ability to play his wide-ranging knowledge of comparative literature...Armstrong's book is most valuable...in offering new insights into the prose of the German writer and in presenting a new way of approaching three plays that were written in three distinct periods of Pinter's life.' - Gene A. Plunka, University of Memphis

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 031221541X
• ISBN 13: 9780312215415
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 198