Franz Kafka, “Confessioni e diari”, Mondadori; F. Kafka, “Tutti i racconti”, Mondadori; F. Kafka, Storie di animali, a cura di G. Giudici, Sellerio; Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, in “Angelus novus”, Einaudi; Giuliano Baioni, Romanzo e parabola, Feltrinelli; L. Borghese, Kafka e gli animali, in “Belfagor” 2010.
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Oral test
Course program
As well as figurative arts and music at the beginning of the twentieth century, Kafka’s literary work is populated by animals, appearing in dreams and stories. In his Diaries, letters and in many of his novels, they show themselves, hybrid and metamorphic, closely related with music and science.