The way the father in Kafka's “Das Urteil” has come to figure as a symbol illustrates the
strange fate that overtakes central features of a literary work when symptomatic readings …

EW WORKS AS BRIEF AND COMPACT as “Das Urteil”(The Judgment) loom so large in the
landscape of literary history. This short story of deceptive simplicity but replete with …

A STRUCTURALIST KAFKA 183 parent from the specialist terms I have just r necessarily
imply a changed focus, merely al many ways critics like Walser or Hillmann, R though …

KAFKA AFTER KAFKA” DIRECTS US to the critical reception of Kafka's works after his
premature death in 1924. This is a wide field, for Kafka's works have lent themselves to …

Criticism, writing about a writer and his work, is an interrogation. Interrogations are always
undertaken by the court in the name of truth and in the name of knowledge which is power …

CONSIDERING the divergence of Kafka interpretations, there is one strange fact about
Kafka critics: they hardly ever fight. In many other fields of criticism, the battle rages for truth …

The entomological dogma prevailing in Kafka scholarship and the whole world of literary
criticism, according to which Die Verwandlung relates the metamorphosis of Gregor Samsa …

“Eine Kreuzung,” a brief short story about the narrator's relationship with a hybrid animal, is a
delicious treat for Kafka scholars. Whether the reader attempts a religious, a linguistic, a …

The utilization of an instrumental model that sees language itself as a means which is
capable of bringing us towards what might be called fixed “meaning,” is one of the greatest …

Much has been written about the torment of the reader in his quest to decipher a Kafka text,
whether the torment be self-inflicted or authorially induced as a necessary experience of the …