the cambridgecompanion to
KAFKA
Franz Kafka’s writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European litera-ture, culture, and thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
offers a com-prehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporaryappraisal of Central Europe’s most distinctive modernist. Contributions coverall the key texts, and discuss Kafka’s writing in a variety of critical contextssuch as feminism, deconstruction, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Jewish stud-ies. Other chapters discuss his impact on popular culture and film. The essaysare well supported by a chronology of significant dates relating to Kafka anddetailedguidestofurtherreading,andwillbeofinteresttostudentsofGerman,Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies.
julian preece
is Senior Lecturer at the School of European Culture andLanguages at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author (withWaldemar Lotnik) of
Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish–UkrainianBorderlands
(
1999
) and
The Life and Work of G¨ unter Grass: Literature,History, Politics
(
2001
).
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