| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
vii, 263 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A chronology of Kafka's life / Allan Blunden -- Kafka's Prague / F.W. Carter -- The spirit of the place / Shelia Stern -- The rise and fall of the Jewish-German symbiosis : the case of Franz Kafka / Felix Weltsch -- Two recollections : Prague, 11 June 1924 and the Golem / Johannes Urzidil -- Under the harrow / Rosemary Dinnage -- Kafka's castle? / Klaus Wagenbach -- On Kafka's novels / Martin Walser -- Endings and non-endings in Kafka's fiction / J.J. White -- Investigations of a dog and other matters : a literary discussion group in an American university / Erich Heller -- Kafka's parables : ways out of the dead end / Roy Pascal -- The uninterpretable radiance / Frank Kermode -- The cunning of a writer / Joachim Beug -- Kafka and language / Anthony Thorlby -- Freud and the magic of Kafka's writing / Walter H. Sokel -- Kafka and the Muirs / Joyce Crick -- Challenges and protests / J.P. Stern [and others] -- A normal enough dog : Kafka and the office / Roy Fuller -- 'I always wanted you to admire my fasting', or, looking at Kafka / Philip Roth -- A triptych for the jackdaw / Jerzy Peterkiewicz -- K. on the moon / D.J. Enright -- Kafka without a world / Wolfgang Fischer -- A path in autumn / Idris Parry -- The Matljary diary / J.P. Stern. |
| Summary |
"In The World of Franz Kafka, Professor J.P. Stern, the internationally respected critic and historian of modern German literature, brings together a number of writings on widely varying aspects of Kafka's life, work and milieu, most of them specially commissioned for this volume. The book is divided into three parts: the first is biographical, covering such topics as the social and cultural environment of Prague in the last years of the Habsburg Empire; Kafka's own Jewish background and problematic family life; his mysterious unfulfilled relationships with women; and it includes reminiscences, some never before published in English. In the second section of the book Martin Walser, Frank Kermode, Erich Heller, Walter Sokel, Anthony Thorlby, and others deal with the literary problems of interpreting Kafka's work, while the concluding part of the book contains fictional or semi-fictional pieces by writers like Roy Fuller, Philip Roth, and D.J. Enright that were inspired by Kafka and in their turn shed fresh light on him"--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.
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Authors, Austrian -- 20th century -- Biography
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| Added Author |
Stern, J. P. (Joseph Peter)
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| ISBN |
0030513669 |
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