| Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee Subjects: Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Kafka Franz 1883–1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Conrad Joseph 1857–1924 -- Criticism and interpretation; Coetzee J. M. 1940 -- Criticism and interpretation; Spiegelman Art -- Criticism and in; In this book, the author argues that certain modern literary texts have apocalyptic futures. Rather than claim that great writers have clairvoyant powers, he examines the ways in which a text incorporates an apocalyptic event into its future reception. He is thus concerned with the way in which apocalyptic works solicit their future receptions. Samolsky Russell : Russell Samolsky is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. |