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"France/Kafka: The Politicization of a Cultural Icon"
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Speaker:
John T. Hamilton, William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Contact:
Alberto Parisi
albertoparisi@g.harvard.edu
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Chair:
Panagiotis Roilos, Faculty Associate. George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies, Department of the Classics; Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University.
Co-Chair:
Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Department of Anthropology, and the Humanities Center, The Johns Hopkins University.
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Abstract:
The fate of Franz Kafka in twentieth-century France constitutes an exemplary case of a writer becoming an author in theory. In addition to generating a profusion of literary scholarship, commentary, and interpretation, Kafka’s texts lie at the core of French thought, which clearly intersects with the social and political reflections spawned by wars hot and cold, by occupation and resistance, by Marxist purges and colonial regrets.
