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Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

Franz Kafka: The Office Writings

Franz Kafka

Gathers eighteen legal briefs and other documents written by Kafka in his professional role as a lawyer for the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in Prague, and explains the issues involved and their role in his literary development.
A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

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New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.
Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine

Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine

Stanley Corngold

Noting Franz Kafka's occupation as an industrial-accident-insurance specialist, the authors explore the two main systems at work in the author's literary world--the official and the personal.
The Burrow

The Burrow

Franz Kafka

The Burrow is an incomplete narrative by Franz Kafka, written 1923-1924, and published posthumously in the magazine Witiko in 1931 by Max Brod.
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

Richard T. Gray

Joseph Peter Stern (New York: Holt, 1980), 1 12-19; Heinz Politzer, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1962); Walter H. Sokel, "The Relationship of Narrative Perspective to Narrative Action and Meaning in 'Before the ...
Business Ethics: The Ethical Revolution of Minority Shareholders

Business Ethics: The Ethical Revolution of Minority Shareholders

Jacques Cory

... and Machiavelli, in Hebrew, Ma'ariv Book Guild, 1989 Kafka Franz, The Trial, Schocken Books, 1998 Kafka Franz, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Barnes an Noble Books, 1 996 Kaufman Allen. Zacharias Lawrence. Karson Marvin.
Activist Business Ethics

Activist Business Ethics

International Business Programs

Kafka Franz, The Trial, Schocken Books, 1998 Kafka Franz, The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, Barnes an Noble Books, 1996 Kaufman Allen, Zacharias Lawrence, Karson Marvin, Managers vs. Owners, The Struggle for Corporate Control ...
Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts:

Franz Kafka and his Prague Contexts:

Nekula, Marek

Věra Macháčková, Konference o díle Franze Kafky (Conference on the work of Franz Kafka). Rudé právo, 31.5.1963, p. 3. Vladimír Macura, Znamení zrodu: české národní obrození jako kulturní typ (Signs of Rebirth: Czech National Rebirth as ...
Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient

Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient

Sander L. Gilman

This is a book of many firsts--the first wide-ranging study of Kafka from the standpoint of the history of the body; the first attempt to understand Kafka's writing through turn-of-the-century discourse about the Jewish body; the first ...
Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka

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A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer

Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer

Michael Lowy

An erudite analysis of the critical and subversive dimensions of Kafka s writings "
Aphorisms

Aphorisms

Franz Kafka

Kafka’s aphorisms are fascinating glimpses into the lure and the enigma of the form itself. From the Hardcover edition.
Franz Kafka. [Mit Tab.] - Cambridge: The Univ. Press 1973. ...

Franz Kafka. [Mit Tab.] - Cambridge: The Univ. Press 1973. ...

Ronald D. Gray

The themes and ideas recurring in Kafka's major novels and short stories are analyzed within the context of his literary development
The Castle

The Castle

Franz Kafka

Kafka died before finishing the work, but suggested it would end with K. dying in the village, the castle notifying him on his death bed that his "legal claim to live in the village was not valid, yet, taking certain auxiliary circumstances ...
Letter to my Father

Letter to my Father

Franz Kafka

This letter is the closest that Kafka came to setting down his autobiography. He was driven to write it by his father's opposition to his engagement with Julie Wohryzek. The marriage did not take place; the letter was not delivered.
Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity

Conceptions of Postwar German Masculinity

Roy Jerome

Kafka and Hasselbach use autobiographical writing as a mode of combat against cycles of reiterated destruction as a way of ... Franz Kafka, Brief an den Vater ( Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer, 1960); Ingo Hasselbach and Winfried Bonengel, Die ...
Franz Kafka: Wirkung und Wirkungsverhinderung

Franz Kafka: Wirkung und Wirkungsverhinderung

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The Development of Reformist Ideas in Czechoslovakia 1956–1967. Cambridge/ MA: Cambridge UP. Nekula, Marek (2003a): Franz Kafkas Sprachen: „... in einem Stockwerk des innern babyloni- schen Turmes ...“. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Nekula ...
Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and ...

Old Worlds, New Mirrors: On Jewish Mysticism and ...

Moshe Idel

In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their ...
Franz Kafkas Literatursprache: Deutsch im Kontext des Prager ...

Franz Kafkas Literatursprache: Deutsch im Kontext des Prager ...

Boris Blahak

Nekula, Marek (1997): Theodor Lessing und Max Brod. Eine mißlungene Begegnung. – In: brücken. Germanistisches Jahrbuch Tschechien – Slowakei. Neue Folge 5, 115–122. Nekula, Marek (1998): Diminutive bei Franz Kafka. – In: Harden ...
The Zero: A Novel

The Zero: A Novel

Jess Walter

The Zero is a groundbreaking novel, a darkly comic snapshot of our times that is already being compared to the works of Franz Kafka and Joseph Heller.
Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter

Freedom from the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter

Dimitris Vardoulakis

See Russell Samolsky, Apocalyptic Futures: Marked Bodies and the Violence of the Text in Kafka, Conrad, and Coetzee (New York: Fordham University Press, 2011), 59. 20. Kafka uses both der Reisende and der Forschungsreisende to 172  ...
Kafka On The Shore

Kafka On The Shore

Haruki Murakami

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

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