Mysterious Illnesses of Human Commodities in Woody Allen and Franz Kafka

The article examines correspondences between Woody Allen's film Zelig and texts by Franz Kafka. Both Leonard Zelig and Gregor Samsa ( The Metamorphosis ) suffer from mysterious illnesses which are multi-determined. Twentieth-century racial stereotypes are partially responsible for them; other...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Iris Bruce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: New Prairie Press 1998-01-01
Series:Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Online Access:http://newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol22/iss1/9