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This lecture will focus on Kafka’s dreams, more precisely the approximately sixty dream notes recorded in his diaries and letters. Far from being mere biographical documents these texts can be understood, in a broader sense, as a creative matrix and an imaginative reservoir for Kafka’s writing. Starting from the author’s experience of lucid dreaming, the talk explores the significance of these dream accounts, with the aim of shedding new light on Kafka’s literary prose and its dreamlike truth.
Isolde Schiffermüller is Full Professor of German Literature at the University of Verona. Her most recent book is Kafkas Träume oder “die Arbeit der langen Nacht” (2024).
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