CONTENTS

Introduction by Margaret C. O’Riley

Translator’s Foreword

   I.  Birth and Development of Genius—Kafka before Kafka (1883-1913)

  II.  Kafka’s Torment—The Post-Naturalist Generation (1906-1913)

 III.  Kafka and the Prospect of Marriage (1912-1921)

 IV.  The Burrow of the Individual and the Labyrinth of Men

  V.  The Survivor—Loneliness, Creation, and the Prospect of Death—The Last Love Affair—Sickness, Death, and Survival (1921-1924)

 VI.  From Allegory to Legend—Myths and Influence of Kafka

Chronology of Important Dates

Bibliography