The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

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.