Franz Kafka : the ghosts in the machine /
Corngold, Stanley.
Wagner, Benno,1958-
Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1. Kafka's stories: Zarathustra on Laurentian Hill: Quetelet, Nietzsche, and Mach ("Description of a struggle") -- The birth of writing from suicide statistics ("The judgment") -- Ways of looking at a vermin (The metamorphosis) -- The punch card and the poet's body ("In the penal colony") -- Kafka and the philosophy of music; or, "Des Kommas Fehl hilft" ("Researches of a dog") -- The ministry of writing (The castle) -- Part 2. Kafka's person, Kafka's world: Kafka and sex -- Kafka (with Nietzsche) as neo-gnostic thinkers -- The calm of writing: Kafka's poetics of accident -- Dissenting discourses: "I am not competent to decide that".
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924