Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka''s personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which explore photography from a variety of different perspectives. By far the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in Kafka''stexts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to visuality more generally. This study not only explores photography''s recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also the first to take systematic account of Kafka''s use of photographs as literary source material.Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka''s engagement with his time and context. Providing a chronological acco
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