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The Paradox of the Employee

The Paradox of the Employee Variants of a Social Theme in Modern Literature - German Studies in America

Leather / Fine Binding (31 Dec 1980)

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Publisher's Synopsis

The figure of the Employee or Angestellte often plays a central rolein modern literature as a creature of ambiguity, indeterminacy and paradox. In tracing the origins and development of this thematic pattern, The Paradox of the Employee delineates the parallels linking Kafka's Castle to the Habsburg civil servants' abortive struggle for a service charter, and explores Orwell's prefiguration of the themes of 1984 in his earlier treatments of the salaried middle class.

Book information

ISBN: 9783261047571
Publisher: Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissen
Imprint: Lang, Peter, AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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Language: English
Number of pages: 160 .
Weight: 310g
Height: 230mm