Title: Kafka's architectures : doors, rooms, stairs and windows of an intricate literary edifice /
Authors: Rahmani, Ayad B.,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, Criticism and interpretation.; Architecture and literature; Architecture Philosophy
Abstract: "Adopting Kafka as a lens to examine modern concepts in architecture, this book pries open new interpretations in Kafka scholarship. Each of eight chapters takes up an architectural element to explore meanings central to both literature and architecture during and after Kafka's time"--
Contents: Windows -- Restless doors -- Up and down stairs -- Rooms and the question of return -- The home as an agent of shock -- In the belly of the ship : a demonstration of machine power and labor relations -- The radicalization of perspective : "in the penal colony" -- By way of a conclusion.