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- Title
Kafka and Noise: The Discovery of Cinematic Sound in Literary Modernism.
- Authors
Zilcosky, John
- Abstract
In Kafka and Noise, Kata Gellen discovers a vital, previously unnoticed aspect of Kafka's writing that allows us to read his well-trodden texts anew. Her book is the most original contribution to Kafka studies in a decade. Gellen convincingly argues that the aspect of"noise" forces us to change fundamentally how we read his work. Gellen also offers an enticing trajectory for further research by insisting that literature might be the best medium for exploring sound—especially when we consider its relation to the new medium that was born during literature's modernist heyday (and, perhaps, swansong): cinema. After reading Kafka and Noise, one realizes that we cannot truly think about sound while remaining deaf to that original "silent" medium: literature.
- Subjects
MODERNISM (Aesthetics); GELLEN, Kata; WRITING processes; NOISE in literature; SOUND in motion pictures
- Publication
Journal of Modern Literature, 2022, Vol 46, Issue 1, p189
- ISSN
0022-281X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2979/jmodelite.46.1.12