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.