Franz Kafka's writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, 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, psycho-analysis, Marxism, Jewish studies. Other chapters discuss his impact on popular culture and film. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading, and will be of interest to students of German, European and Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies.
| ISBN: | 9780521663144 |
| Publication date: | 21st February 2002 |
| Author: | Julian University of Kent, Canterbury Preece |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 280 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Social groups: religious groups and communities |