This volume, which originated at a conference in Prague (2016), portrays the specific
interculturalism in Prague and Bohemia during the Habsburg Empire, highlights its …

Franz Kafka is by far the Prague author most widely read and admired internationally.
However, his reception in Czechoslovakia, launched by the Liblice conference in 1963, has …

A mong his “true blood-relations” in the sense of personal and literary kinship Kafka lists
writers such as Grillparzer, Dostoevski, Kleist, and Flaubert,'and he gives Kierkegaard the …

After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that
downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition …

The Animal in the Synagogue explores Franz Kafka's sense of being a Jew in the modern
world and its literary and linguistic ramifications. It falls into two parts. The first is organized …

Kafka's Other Prague: Writings from the Czechoslovak Republic examines Kafka's late
writings from the perspective of the author's changing relationship with Czech language …

No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century has been as fully accepted
into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal …

Franz Kafka's œuvre is a reflection of man as an existent faced with the inescapable
prospect of solitude, dread, subjectivity, anguish, absurdity, nothingness, anddeath. Kafka's …

Jews like Spinoza, Franz Kafka, Heinrich Heine, Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Karl
Kraus, among others, have rightly been categorised as “conscious pariahs”, who earned …

Professor of German and comparative Literature emeritus, Princeton university upon his
retirement, Professor corngold received the Behrman award for distinguished achievement …