num_pages: 280
description: This Companion of specially-commissioned essays offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's 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.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
characters: Franz Kafka
genres: Short Stories, Biography, Philosophy, Reference, Literature, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Cambridge University Press