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Dans les essais qui sont rassemblés dans ce livre, nous tentons donc, fidèles aussi bien aux écrits de Kafka lui-même qu’aux témoignages biographiques disponibles, de restituer la dimension réelle des intérêts de Kafka pour l’anarchisme, sans pour autant ni les amplifier ni les minimiser, comme s’il était interdit à un écrivain important d’être séduit par les idées anarchistes.
Nous ne prétendons pas bien sûr que cette grille de lecture ouvre toutes les portes de l’immense édifice que constitue l’œuvre de Kafka. Au contraire. Cependant, la question n’est pas résolue de savoir pourquoi la critique officielle a préféré laisser hermétiquement fermée cette porte – la porte qui permet de découvrir la critique exercée par cet exceptionnel « dissecteur du pouvoir » – nous livrant ainsi une image incomplète de ce grand écrivain.
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The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority
2019, Black Rose Books
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in English
1551646560 9781551646565
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Kafka et les anarchistes: Insubordination, intransigeance, refus de l’autorité
2018, Atelier de création libertaire
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2351041208 9782351041208
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The study of Franz Kafka’s work has seen a steady rise in past decades, with interest broad and growing. With its breadth of sources and bold interpretation, Franz Kafka: The Anatomist of Power is a fascinating new look at one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. Of interest to both academic and public audiences, his work spans multiple disciplines, including literature, gender studies, Jewish studies, modern history, and political theory.
Although Kafka has been established for many years as a leading light of Western literature, and interest in his writings continue to grow, no work has yet fully focused on Kafka’s criticism of power institutions in his literary work. The anti-authoritarian dimension of Kafka's work, long silenced in established criticism, is explored for the first time in this book.
Supported by a close reading of Kafka's diaries, this book reconstructs Kafka's active participation in Prague’s anarchist circles between 1909-1912, discussing his wide interest in anarchist authors, his skepticism towards the Russian Revolution, and his ambivalent relationship with Utopian Zionism.
Costas Despiniadis is a writer, publisher, translator and editor, and the founder of Greek publishing house and journal Panopticon. He has translated 25 books and dozens of essays by Arendt, Shelley, Goldman, Thoreau, Huxley, Kropotkin and Proudhon, among others. His own essays and books have been translated into French, German, Spanish and English.
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