Expeditions to Kafka : selected essays

In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka s work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Nietzsche s seminal Birth of Tragedy; the logic of possession and inheritance; anorexia; theories of literary interpretation; myth; Kafka and the logic of organization; and aphoristic form, among others. Even as Corngold explores Kafka s work across different fields and tangents, he does so in vivid, readable prose, free of jargon, and with an eye to Kafka s ongoing relevance to the concerns of his day and ours. Taken together these linked essays reveal Kafka in his astonishing many-sidedness.