The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

About this book

This Companion of specially-commissioned essays offers a comprehensive account of his life and work providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europes most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts and discuss Kafkas writing in a variety of critical contexts such as feminism deconstruction psychoanalysis Marxism and Jewish studies. The essays are enhanced by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. They will be of interest to students of German European and Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies.