The Mystical Life of Franz Kafka (original) (raw)

Shofar, 2014

Abstract

THE MYSTICAL LIFE OF FRANZ KAFKA By June O. Leavitt. Theosophy, Cabala, and the Modern Spiritual Revival. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012. 212 pp.Despite almost multitudinous interpretations of Franz Kafka's oeuvre it still remains in many points a conundrum. Kafka readers would therefore be grateful for every new explanation as all the interpretations presently at hand can illuminate only a part of their matters of interest. Of essential importance in interpreting Kafka's writings, is to pose the question as to what the author Kafka himself wanted and thought, and not the variety of things which the recipient might find within this opalescent oeuvre. And it seems that Leavitt's now presented Kafka book wanted to follow exactly this norm when she inquires after Kafka's mystical experience from which his writings not infrequently result. That Kafka had an inclination toward mystical or better esoteric traditions has been a communis opinio for a long while, not hi...

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