Frederick R. Karl
Born
New York, NY, The United States
Died
April 30, 2004
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The Existential Imagination: From Sade to Sartr
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9 editions
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1965
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George Eliot: Voice of a Century
5 editions
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1990
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William Faulkner: American Writer: A Biography
6 editions
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published
1989
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Franz Kafka: Representative Man: Prague, Germans, Jews, and the Crisis of Modernism
6 editions
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1991
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American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation
4 editions
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1983
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The Naked I: Fictions For The Seventies
5 editions
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published
1972
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Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist, 1885-1925
3 editions
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published
1985
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A Reader's Guide to Joseph Conrad
5 editions
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published
1970
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Joseph Conrad: The Three Lives
8 editions
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published
1979
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American Fictions: 1980-2000: Whose America Is It Anyway?
2 editions
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2001
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“What’s Kafkaesque?
Frederick R. Karl defined the term this way:
"What’s Kafkaesque is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world. You don’t give up, you don’t lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don’t stand a chance. That’s Kafkaesque.”
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Frederick R. Karl defined the term this way:
"What’s Kafkaesque is when you enter a surreal world in which all your control patterns, all your plans, the whole way in which you have configured your own behavior, begins to fall to pieces, when you find yourself against a force that does not lend itself to the way you perceive the world. You don’t give up, you don’t lie down and die. What you do is struggle against this with all of your equipment, with whatever you have. But of course you don’t stand a chance. That’s Kafkaesque.”
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