Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient

ISBN-13: 9780415913911 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 344 str.

Sander L. Gilman

Opis

In this study, Sander Gilman unravels the strange tale of Kafka's relation to his body, to the specific Jewishness of his illness, and to his masculinity. Gilman's knowledge of Kafka's cultural and historical period, and specifically the cultural fears surrounding European Jews, opens the medical case of Kafka's famous body: the tall, gawky figure, wracked by deep anxieties about maleness, sickness and suffering. With access to Kafka's medical records, Gilman engages in an analysis of hyperchondria, anorexia, homosexuality, turn-of-the-century ritual slaughter, and myths about the relationship of body type to character.

Spis treści

1 On Difference Language and Mice 2 Kafka's Body in the Mirror of His Culture 3 Males on Trial 4 Tuberculosis as a Test Case 5 Conclusion

O autorze

Sander Gilman