Richard Godwin

RICHARD GODWIN is a writer and professor of English and American literature. He has lectured and given creative writing courses at various universities in the UK and the USA (University of London, University of Vermont, Harvard University, Liverpool Hope University, Kingston College). He is the critically acclaimed author of some 15 books of crime fiction, such as Locked in Cages (2016), Noir City (2014), One Lost Summer (2013), Mr. Glamour (2012), and Apostle Rising (2011). The latter was published in Hungarian by Alexandra Publishing under the title A romlás labirintusa in 2013.

PATRIARCHY AND THE TRAUMATISED PROTAGONIST IN FRANZ KAFKA

There is an acute sense of the fragmentation of patriarchy in the fin de siècle fictions of Kafka, and the accompanying sense of trauma in his protagonists. If Metamorphosis may be counted as fantasy literature, then it seems that Kafka had to leave the world of the real and enter the fictional

2017.03.04.

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