@inbook{d95a548a1166496996c7860fb889dabb,
title = "The Snowy Desert in Kafka{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}A Country Doctor{\textquoteright} and Other Non-Places in Modernity",
abstract = "The article discusses Marc Aug{\'e}{\textquoteright}s reservation of the concept of non-places to supermodernity in his seminal work Non-Places. Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity. This could imply a striking underestimation of the importance of non-places in modernity and modernism, furthered by a simplified dichotomy between hypermodernity and modernity. Unfolding a number of counter-images, examples of non-places in modernity and modernism, the article focuses on the desert as an important metaphorical non-place. Special attention being given to this (un)topos in the late Kafka and most particularly to a comprehensive reading of “A Country Doctor” (“Ein Landarzt”) in a historical and literary context, the article also points out striking examples of the desert as a non-place in modernity in e.g. Goethe, Tolstoy, Nietzsche, Spengler and T. S. Eliot. ",
keywords = "Non-place. Kafka. World literature ",
author = "Anker Gemz{\o}e",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-87-7112-217-6",
volume = "7",
series = "Interdisciplin{\ae}re kulturstudier",
publisher = "Aalborg Universitetsforlag",
pages = "353--384",
editor = "Mirjam Gebauer and Nielsen, {Helle Thors{\o}e} and Jan Schlosser and Bent S{\o}rensen",
booktitle = "Non-Place",
}