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[A]s a little child I had been defeated by my father and because of ambition have never been able to quit the battlefield all these years despite the perpetual defeats I suffer. (DII 200)
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Notes and References
Max Brod, Franz Kafka: A Biography (New York, 1960) p. 24.
Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox (Ithaca, N.Y., 1962) p. 291.
Herbert Tauber, Franz Kafka: An Interpretation of his Works (London, 1948) p. 15.
See Coleridge’s own explanatory note to the poem. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Poems (London, 1959) pp. 142–3.
Elias Canetti has argued that, `by virtue of some of his stories, Kafka belongs in the annals of Chinese literature’ (Elias Canetti, Kafka’s Other Trial (Harmondsworth, 1982) p. 72). And indeed Kafka himself once proclaimed: ‘I am a Chinese’ (FEL 594).
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Armstrong, R. (1999). Descriptions of a Struggle: ‘The Judgement’ and ‘The Metamorphosis’. In: Kafka and Pinter Shadow-Boxing. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376182_1
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