A close study of Kafka’s major stories and novels, and how this body of work was received, explicated and interpreted by key figures in post-war France. Relevant excerpts from Kafka’s diaries and correspondence supplement the primary texts, as well as discussions relating to French Existentialism, the Student Movement, and Post-Structuralism.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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