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Kafka and the east.(writer Franz Kafka)(Critical Essay)

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From: Symposium
Date: 20020101
Author:McCort, Dennis

INTRODUCTION

SINCE THE APPEARANCE of the two seminal "Chinese" studies by Joo-Dong Lee and Weiyan Meng in the mid-1980s, some of the most interesting Kafka scholarship has taken a radical turn to the East. James Whitlark's Behind the Great Wall, which links Kafka with Zen haiku poetry and deconstruction, and Rolf Goebel's Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse, which carries out the project implicit in its title, are just two of the fascinating studies to come out of this turn. The name of long-suffering Gregor Samsa has even been linked of late to the Buddhist ...

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