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.