At the castle of Liblice, situated north of Prague, an international conference organized by Czechoslovakian Germanists in May 1963 on the occasion of Franz Kafka’s eightieth birthday set itself the goal of rehabilitating his work in Marxist literary studies. Here, Kafka’s work served a few speakers at the conference as a symbol for the confrontation with Stalinism of the 1950s. The Kafka conference, whose …
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Koeltzsch, Ines, “Liblice”, in: Encyclopedia of Jewish History and Culture Online, Original German Language Edition: Enzyklopädie Jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur. Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig herausgegeben von Dan Diner. © J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart/Springer-Verlag GmbH Deutschland 2011–2017. Consulted online on 30 May 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2468-8894_ejhc_COM_0449>
First published online: 2017
First print edition: 20210312
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