Publication details
Rudolf Fuchs über Franz Kafka - Eine unbekannte Werkbeschreibung aus dem Londoner Exil 1942
| Title in English | Rudolf Fuchs on Franz Kafka - An Unknown Description of the Work from the London Exile 1942. |
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| Year of publication | 2018 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft |
| Citation | |
| Web | Rudolf Fuchs über Franz Kafka - Eine unbekannte Werkbeschreibung aus dem Londoner Exil 1942 |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110580983-003 |
| Keywords | Rudolf Fuchs, Franz Kafka, Rudolf Fuchs, Franz Kafka, Prague literary scene, Max Brod, canonization, exile literature, German authors in Prague, Czech-German cultural relations, literary circles, literary history |
| Description | With his book "The Prague Circle" from 1966, Max Brod erected a monument to the literary scene of Prague around 1912. Brod's monument was an act of consequential canonization. Brod's canonization resulted in numerous German authors in Prague being excluded or marginalized. This included Rudolf Fuchs (1890 - 1942), who emigrated to London in 1938. When Rudolf Fuchs fled from Prague to London after the Munich Agreement in 1938, he compiled an anthology titled "German Almanac from Czechoslovakia" shortly before his accidental death, including texts by Johannes Urzidil, Ludwig Winder, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Franz Kafka. It contains an introduction written by Fuchs to Kafka's texts "Before the Law" and "A Report for an Academy." The contribution introduces a hitherto unknown literary relationship between Franz Kafka and Rudolf Fuchs, expanding the literary circle around him. |