Recovering Franz Kafka's Asbestos Factory

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New Literary History Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.1353/nlh.2022.0002

Arthur Rose

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Abstract

Abstract:This article recalls Franz Kafka's part ownership of the asbestos factory, Prague Asbestwerke Hermann & Co. to introduce two forms of literary recovery, exemplified by Alan Bennett's 1985 television play, The Insurance Man, and James Kelman's 1994 novel, How late it was, how late. Both works develop divergent politicized styles, based on their respective readings of Kafka's life and work. Rather than simply recuperating Kafka from this biographeme or damning him for it, they find the aesthetic means to represent the asbestos problem in the combination of Kafka's biography and writing, either by addressing the long tail of asbestos exposure or by focussing on the interiority of asbestos victims. Brought together, these approaches turn the recovery of Kafka's asbestos factory into a case for thinking about precarity, activism, compensation, and justice.

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恢复Franz Kafka的石棉工厂

摘要:本文回顾了弗朗茨·卡夫卡在布拉格石棉工厂的部分所有权，介绍了两种形式的文学复苏，以艾伦·班尼特1985年的电视剧《保险人》和詹姆斯·凯尔曼1994年的小说《多么晚啊，多么晚啊》为代表。两部作品基于各自对卡夫卡生平和作品的解读，形成了不同的政治化风格。他们不是简单地将卡夫卡从这个传记中恢复，也不是为此诅咒他，而是通过解决石棉暴露的长尾问题，或者通过关注石棉受害者的内心，在卡夫卡的传记和写作的结合中找到了代表石棉问题的美学手段。这些方法结合在一起，将卡夫卡的石棉工厂的恢复变成了一个思考不稳定、激进主义、补偿和正义的案例。

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期刊介绍： New Literary History focuses on questions of theory, method, interpretation, and literary history. Rather than espousing a single ideology or intellectual framework, it canvasses a wide range of scholarly concerns. By examining the bases of criticism, the journal provokes debate on the relations between literary and cultural texts and present needs. A major international forum for scholarly exchange, New Literary History has received six awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals.