The document discusses connections between J.M. Coetzee's novel Life and Times of Michael K and Franz Kafka's works. Michael K is compared to the insect characters in Kafka's works and his situation is likened to the nightmarish worlds depicted in Kafka's novels. One critic discusses how starvation is presented as subversion in Kafka's short story A Hunger Artist and how this relates to Michael K. The document also provides citations for works analyzing Coetzee's relationship to Kafka and influence from his writings.

1. KAFKA
COETZEE

3. Das Schloss - TheCastle
There are obvious links between the state of civil
anomie through which South Africa is passing in
Michael K and the nightmarish world of
The Castle. (101)
David Attwell in South Africa and the Politics of
Writing

4. DerBau–Theburrow

5. DerHungerkünstler - A HungerArtist
Not eating in the face of food availability
marks food refusal as subversion and
situates starvation as both an affront to and
a withdrawal from dominant ideological
audience. (110)
Laura Wright in “Minor Literature and the
Skeleton of Sense: Anorexia, Franz Kafka´s
A Hunger Artist and J.M. Coetzee´s Life and
Opinions of Michael K”.

6. DieUmwandlung - TheMetamorphosis
Michael K is compared to an
insect, a termite, an ant, a snail, a
parasite and an insect.

7. Animal rights

8. Works cited I
- Attridge, Derek. J.M. Coetzee andtheethicsofreading. Chicago: TheUniversityof Chicago Press, 2004.
- Attwell, David. DoublingthePoint. Cambridge: Harvard UniversityPress, 1992.
––J.M. Coetzee: SouthAfricaandthePoliticsofWriting. Cape Town: Universityof California Press, 1993.
- Barney, Richard. “Between Swift and Kafka: AnimalsandthePoliticsofCoetzee´selusiveFiction.“
Disponible el 1 de setiembre 2013
en:http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Between+Swift+and+Kafka%3a+animals+and+the+politics+of+Coetzee'
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- Beckett, Samuel. Obras selectas de premios nobel. Barcelona: Planeta, 1994. 3-262.
-Coetzee, J.M. Costas extrañas. 2001. Barcelona: Mondadori, 2010.97-113
–– Disgrace. Londres: Vintage, 2000.
–– Foe.Londres: Penguin, 1986.
––In theHeartofthe Country. 1977. Londres: Vintage, 2004.
–– Life and Times of Michael K. 1983. Londres: Vintage, 1998.
-Gordimer, Nadine. “The idea of gardening.” Disponible el 6 de noviembre 2012
en:http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1984/feb/02/the-idea-ofgardening/?pagination=false#fnr2-754774921

9. Works cited II
- Head, Dominic. The Cambridge Introduction to J.M. Coetzee. Nueva York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
-Kafka, Franz. Der Bau. 1923. Disponible el 9 de febrero 2013 en:http://www.textlog.de/32121.html
––Der Prozess. 1925. Disponible el 2 de julio 2013 en: http://www.textlog.de/kafka-der-prozess.html
––Ein Hungerkünstler. 1924. Die neue Rundschau XXXIII, 1922. Disponible el 17 enero 2013 en:
http://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30655
––El castillo. 1926. Disponible el 12 de marzo 2013 en:www.libros.literaturalibre.com
–– La Metamorfosis y otros relatos de animales. 1915. Madrid: Espasa Libros, 2010.
- Merivale, Patricia. “Audible Palimpsets: Coetzee´s Kafka.” CriticalPerspectiveson J.M. Coetzee. Eds. - - Graham Huggan y Stephen Watson. Londres: Macmillan Press, 1996. 152-167.
- Morphet, Tony. "Two Interviews with J. M. Coetzee, 1983 and 1987." Triquarterly 69, 1987. 454–64.
-Spivak, GayatriChakravorty. “Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee, and Certain Scenes of Teaching.”
Diacritics, Volumen 32 número 3-4, 2002: 17-31.
-Wright, Laura. Minor Literature and the Skeleton of Sense: Anorexia, Franz Kafka's A Hunger Artist, and J. M.
Coetzee's Life & Times of Michael K.” Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Volumen
8, Ejemplar 1, 2001. 109-123
Yeo, Gilbert. “J.M. Coetzee and Samuel Beckett: Nothingness, MinimalismandIndeterminacy”. ARIEL: A
Reviewof International EnglishLiterature 31.4, 2000. 117-137. Disponible el 5 de setiembre 2013
en:http://ariel.synergiesprairies.ca/ariel/index.php/ariel/article/viewFile/3466/3407