Franz Kafka

This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Kafka the writer; 2. Towards understanding; 3. Early stories and 'The Judgement'; 4. America; 5. 'The Metamorphosis'; 6. 'In the Penal Colony'; 7. The Trial; 8. 'A Country Doctor' and other stories; 9. The Castle; 10. Later stories; 11. Religious ideas; Notes to the text; Chronological table; Select Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 1973 text provides a critical introduction to the writings of Franz Kafka. Within it Ronald Gray surveys the novels and short stories, and glances also at the religious or confessional writings. He presents a persuasive and coherent account of Kafka's personal and artistic development and its meaning and value for us.

Product details

• Authors: Dave Gray, Murray Gray, Ronald Gray, Ronald D. Gray
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521097475
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09747-5
• No. of pages: 230
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 330 g
• Series: British Authors. Introductory
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies