Table of Contents

1: Life and Myth
2: Reading Kafka
3: Bodies
4: Institutions
5: The Last Things
References and Further Reading

About the Author

Ritchie Robertson is a Professor of German at Oxford University and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published books on Kafka, Heine, and Thomas Mann, as well as The Jewish Question in German Literature (OUP, 1999). He has translated several eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German authors into English for the Oxford World Classics and Penguin Classics series