FOR FURTHER READING

Works by Kafka

Amerika. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: Schocken Books, 1954.

The Basic Kafka. Edited by Erich Heller; various translators. New York: Washington Square Press, 1979.

The Castle: The Definitive Edition. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

The Complete Stories. Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer; translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, et al. New York: Schocken Books, 1971.

Dearest Father: Stories and Other Writings. Translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkins. New York: Schocken Books, 1954.

Diaries, 1910-1913. Edited by Max Brod; translated by Joseph Kresh. New York: Schocken Books, 1948.

Diaries, 1914-1923. Edited by Max Brod; translated by Martin Greenberg with the cooperation of Hannah Arendt. New York: Schocken Books, 1949.

The Trial: The Definitive Edition. Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, revised and with additional materials translated by E. M. Butler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956.

Biography

Brod, Max. Franz Kafka: A Biography. New York: Schocken Books, 1960.

Hayman, Ronald. K: A Biography of Kafka. London: Phoenix Giant, 1996.

Neider, Charles. The Frozen Sea: A Study of Franz Kafka. New York: Oxford University Press, 1948.

Pawel, Ernst. The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka. New York: Vintage Books, 1985.

Wagenbach, Klaus. Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life. Translated by Arthur S. Wensinger. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.

Criticism

Benjamin, Walter. “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” and “Some Reflections on Kafka.” In Illuminations , edited by Hannah Arendt; translated by Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1969, pp. 111-145.

Bloom, Harold, ed. Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Borges, Jorge Luis. “Kafka and His Precursors.” In Labyrinths. New York: New Directions, 1964, pp. 199-201.

Corngold, Stanley. The Commentators’ Despair: The Interpretation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis.” Port Washington, NY: Ken nikat Press, 1973.

Emrich, Wilhelm. Franz Kafka: A Critical Study of His Writings. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing, 1968.

Flores, Angel. The Kafka Debate: New Perspectives for Our Time. New York: Gordian Press, 1977.

———, ed. The Kafka Problem. New York: New Directions, 1946, pp. 122-133.

Gray, Ronald, ed. Kafka: A Collection of Critical Essays. Engle wood, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962.

Greenberg, Clement. “The Jewishness of Franz Kafka.” Commentary XIX (April 1955), pp. 320-324.

Gross, Ruth V. “Kafka and Women.” In Approaches to Teaching Kafka’s Short Fiction, edited by Ronald Gray. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1995, pp. 69-75.

Nabokov, Vladimir. Lectures on Literature. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.

Udoff, Alan, ed. Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Other Works Cited in the Introduction

Emrich, Wilhelm. Commentary in The Metamorphosis, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold. New York: Bantam, 1972.

Kafka, Franz. The Metamorphosis, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold. New York: Bantam, 1972.

Mann, Thomas. Commentary in The Castle: The Definitive Edition . Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir, with additional materials translated by Ernst Kaiser and Eithne Wilkens. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

Politzer, Heinz. Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox. Ithaca: Cor nell University Press, 1962.

Sokel, Walter. Commentary in The Metamorphosis, translated and edited by Stanley Corngold. New York: Bantam, 1972.

Thorlby, Anthony. “Kafka’s Narrative: A Matter of Form.” In Kafka and the Contemporary Critical Performance, edited by Alan Udoff. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987.

Wenniger, Robert. “Sounding Out the Silence of Gregor Samsa: Kafka’s Rhetoric of Dyscommunication.” Studies in Twentieth Century Literature XVII (Summer 1993): pp. 263-286.