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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... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Franz Kafka: Add a description of this character.
- Max Brod
- Karl Ramann
- Josef K.
- Felice Bauer
- Walter Benjamin
- Milena Jesenska
- Gregor Samsa
- Frieda
- Josephine
- Stoker
- Jakob
- Titorelli
- Kaflca
- Hartmut Binder
- Gilman
- Amalia
- Mark M. Anderson
- Peretz
- Robertson
- Pawel
- Fischer
- Leni
- Welles
- Kurt Wolff
- Kafka-handbuch
- Klaus Wagenbach
- Robinson
- Malcolm Pasley
- Georg Bendemann
- Anthony Northey
- J. P. Stern
- Julie Wohryzek
- Grete Bloch
- Rotpeter
- Pollak
- Rowohlt
Setting & Locations edit
- New York
- London
- Prague
- Berlin
- America
- Central Europe
- Judaism
- Paris
- The Trial
- Clarendon
- Frankfurt
- Bohemia
- Stuttgart
- Germany
- Cambridge
- Vienna
- Ithaca
- Great Wall Of China
- Czechoslovakia
- Palestine
- Russia
- United States
- Angel Flores
- Berkeley
- Bonn
- Austria
- Kafica
- Ottla
- Hungary
First Sentence edit
Jewish, German, Czech, born a subject of the Habsburgs at 'the heart of Europe' in Bohemian Prague in 1883, died a citizen of Czechoslovakia on the outskirts of Vienna forty-one years later; a speaker of French and Italian in addition to his native German, Czech, and Yiddish, which he learnt as an adult; steeped in both Jewish lore and German literature and surrounded by the sound of Czech for most of his life, Franz Kafka was first and foremost an internationalist and a European.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Cambridge Companions to Literature. (publisher series)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 833.912
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › Criticism & Theory
- Books › Literature & Fiction › History & Criticism › European
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Arts & Literature › Authors
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Ethnic & National › Jewish
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