Fantasies of Fragmentation in Conrad, Kafka and Pessoa: Literary Strategies to Express Strangeness in a Hetero-social Context

Many authors, such as Chamisso, Conrad, Rilke, Kafka, Pessoa, Goll, Nabokov, Celan and Beckett grew up bi- or multilingual, or lived in linguistically and culturally hybrid regions. Recurring to examples of texts by Joseph Conrad, Franz Kafka and Fernando Pessoa, this paper focuses on their common t...

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Main Author: Gerald Bär
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2011-10-01
Series:Amaltea: Revista de Mitocrítica
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Online Access:http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/AMAL/article/view/37836