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Works of Franz Kafka: Background Of German Literature

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Kafka, Franz

Kafka, Franz
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Background Of German Literature

Literary Trends

It can safely be said that the intellectual trends of the Wilhelmian
period of German literature were on the whole political in nature. Great
changes were taking place geographically, psychologically, and politically in
Central Europe, and the resultant spiritual and historical upheavals of the
age had a marked impact on the cultural climate into which Kafka was born. It
was an age of crisis in German history, and the drama of 1870 was proving but
a prelude to the tragedy of 1914. In South Germany, there was a ...

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