SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
(CONFINED TO WORKS IN ENGLISH)

Translations of Non-Fictional Works by Kafka

The Collected Aphorisms, tr. Malcolm Pasley (London: Penguin, 1994).

The Diaries, tr. Joseph Kresh and Martin Greenberg (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, tr. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Schocken, 1988).

Letters to Felice, tr. James Stern and Elizabeth Duckworth (London: Vintage, 1992).

Letters to Milena, expanded edn, tr. Philip Boehm (New York: Schocken, 1990).

Letters to Ottla and the Family, tr. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Schocken, 1988).

Biographies

Adler, Jeremy, Franz Kafka (London: Penguin, 2001).

Brod, Max, Franz Kafka: A Biography, tr. G. Humphreys Roberts and Richard Winston (New York: Schocken, 1960).

Diamant, Kathi, Kafka’s Last Love: The Mystery of Dora Diamant (London: Secker & Warburg, 2003).

Hayman, Ronald, K: A Biography of Kafka (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1981).

Hockaday, Mary, Kafka, Love and Courage: The Life of Milena Jesenská (London: Deutsch, 1995).

Murray, Nicholas, Kafka (London: Little, Brown, 2004).

Northey, Anthony, Kafka’s Relatives: Their Lives and His Writing (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1991).

Storr, Anthony, ‘Kafka’s Sense of Identity’, in Churchill’s Black Dog and Other Phenomena of the Human Mind (London: Collins, 1989), 52–82.

Unseld, Joachim, Franz Kafka: A Writer’s Life, tr. Paul F. Dvorak (Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press, 1997).

Introductions

Preece, Julian (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).

Robertson, Ritchie, Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Rolleston, James (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002).

Speirs, Ronald and Beatrice Sandberg, Franz Kafka, Macmillan Modern Novelists (London: Macmillan, 1997).

Critical Studies

Alter, Robert, Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin and Scholem (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991).

Anderson, Mark, Kafka’s Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).

—— ‘Kafka, Homosexuality and the Aesthetics of “Male Culture”’, Austrian Studies, 7 (1996), 79–99.

Boa, Elizabeth, Kafka: Gender, Class and Race in the Letters and Fictions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996).

Corngold, Stanley, Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004).

Dodd, W. J., Kafka and Dostoyevsky: The Shaping of Influence (London: Macmillan, 1992).

—— (ed.), Kafka: The Metamorphosis, The Trial and The Castle, Modern Literatures in Perspective (London and New York: Longman, 1995).

Duttlinger, Carolin, Kafka and Photography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).

Flores, Angel (ed.), The Kafka Debate (New York: Gordian Press, 1977).

Gilman, Sander L., Franz Kafka, the Jewish Patient (London and New York: Routledge, 1995).

Goebel, Rolf J., Constructing China: Kafka’s Orientalist Discourse (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997).

Heidsieck, Arnold, The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka’s Fiction: Philosophy, Law, Religion (Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1994).

Koelb, Clayton, Kafka’s Rhetoric: The Passion of Reading (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1989).

Politzer, Heinz, Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1962).

Robertson, Ritchie, Kafka: Judaism, Politics, and Literature (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985).

Sokel, Walter H., The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz Kafka (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2002).

Zilcosky, John, Kafka’s Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Zischler, Hanns, Kafka Goes to the Movies, tr. Susan H. Gillespie (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2003).

Historical Context

Anderson, Mark (ed.), Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics, and the Fin de Siècle (New York: Schocken, 1989).

Beck, Evelyn Torton, Kafka and the Yiddish Theater (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971).

Bruce, Iris, Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine (Madison, Wisc.: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007).

Gelber, Mark H. (ed.), Kafka, Zionism, and Beyond (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2004).

Kieval, Hillel J., The Making of Czech Jewry: National Conflict and Jewish Society in Bohemia, 1870–1918 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).

Robertson, Ritchie, The ‘Jewish Question’ in German Literature, 1749–1939 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999).

Spector, Scott, Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka’s Fin de Siècle (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 2000).

The Trial

Dodd, William J., Kafka: Der Prozeβ (Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1991).

Dowden, Stephen D., Sympathy for the Abyss: A Study in the Novel of German Modernism (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1986), 94–134.

Goebel, Rolf, ‘The Exploration of the Modern City in The Trial’, in The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, ed. Julian Preece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 42–60.

Grundlehner, Philip, ‘Manual Gestures in Kafka’s Prozeβ’, German Quarterly, 55 (1982), 186–99.

Leopold, Keith, ‘Breaks in Perspective in Franz Kafka’s Der Prozeβ’, German Quarterly, 36 (1963), 31–8.

Marson, Eric L., Kafka’s Trial: The Case Against Josef K. (St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1975).

Pasley, Malcolm, ‘Two Literary Sources of Kafka’s Der Prozeβ’, Forum for Modern Language Studies, 3 (1967), 142–7.

—— ‘Kafka’s Der Process: What the Manuscript Can Tell Us’, Oxford German Studies, 18/19 (1989–90), 109–18.

Robertson, Ritchie, ‘Reading the Clues: Kafka, Der Proceβ’, in David Midgley (ed.), The German Novel in the Twentieth Century: Beyond Realism (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1993), 59–79.

Sheppard, Richard, ‘The Trial/The Castle: Towards an Analytical Comparison’, in Angel Flores (ed.), The Kafka Debate (New York: Gordian Press, 1977), 396–417.

Sokel, Walter H., ‘The Programme of Kafka’s Court: Oedipal and Existential Meanings of The Trial’, in Franz Kuna (ed.), Franz Kafka: Semi-Centenary Perspectives (London: Elek, 1976), 1–21.

Stern, J. P., ‘The Law of The Trial’, in Franz Kuna (ed.), Franz Kafka: Semi-Centenary Perspectives (London: Elek, 1976), 22–41.

Further Reading in Oxford World’s Classics

Kafka, Franz, The Castle, tr. Anthea Bell, ed. Ritchie Robertson.

—— The Metamorphosis and Other Stories, tr. Joyce Crick, ed. Ritchie Robertson.