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    The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies
    The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies
    The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies
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    The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies

    By Stephen Shearier

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    A group of mostly Jewish German-speaking
    writers, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures in
    modern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Franz
    Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminal
    dramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and essays on aesthetics. The
    writers of the Prague Circle were bound together not by a common perspective or
    a particular ideology, but by shared experiences and interests. From their
    vantage point in the Bohemian capital during the early decades of the twentieth
    century, they witnessed first-hand the collapse of the familiar and predictable,
    if not entirely comfortable, monarchical old order and the ascent of an anxious
    and uncertain modern era that led inexorably to fascism, militarization, and
    war. In order to deal with their new challenges, they considered strategies as
    diverse and oppositional as the members of the Prague Circle themselves. Their
    responses were shaped to various degrees by Catholicism, Zionism, expressionism,
    activism, anti-activism, international solidarity with the working class, and transcendence.
    Stephen Shearier explores how these authors aligned themselves on the spectrum
    of the Activism Debate, which preceded the much studied Expressionist Debate by
    a generation. This study examines the critical reception of these influential literary
    figures to determine how their legacies have been shaped.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAcademica Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2022
    ISBN9781680537772
    The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their Legacies

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