Book franz kafka, the jewish patient book

Sander L Gilman is an American cultural and literary historian He is known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the history of medicine He is the author or editor of over ninety books Gilmans focus is on medicine and the echoes of its rhetoric in social and political discourse Sander L Gilman is an American cultural and literary historian He is known for his contributions to Jewish studies and the history of medicine He is the author or editor of over ninety books Gilman s focus is on medicine and the echoes of its rhetoric in social and political discourse site_link In this study Sander Gilman unravels the strange tale of Kafka s relation to his body to the specific Jewishness of his illness and to his masculinity Gilman s knowledge of Kafka s cultural and historical period and specifically the cultural fears surrounding European Jews opens the medical case of Kafka s famous body the tall gawky figure wracked by deep anxieties about maleness sickness and suffering With access to Kafka s medical records Gilman engages in an analysis of hyperchondria anorexia homosexuality turn of the century ritual slaughter and myths about the relationship of body type to character Franz Kafka The Jewish Patient.