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.

Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/04/2002
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.06w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780521663915

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2002 pg. 284

About the Author
Preece, Julian: - Julian Preece is Senior Lecturer at the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author (with Waldemar Lotnik) of Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands and The Life and Work of Günter Grass: Literature, History, Politics (2001).

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