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Ronald Speirs and Beatrice Sandberg Franz Kafka.(Critical Essay)

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From: Symposium
Date: 20020101
Author:Schneider, Gerd K.

New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 161 pp.

READING AND TRYING TO UNDERSTAND Kafka can be compared to rotating a kaleidoscope in front of your eyes: one gets beautiful images, all of them delightful to look at, but some more superb than others. Such an impressive picture is presented by Ronald Speirs and Beatrice Sandberg in their approach to Franz Kafka.

The present monograph is the second volume treating a German novelist (the first one is on Thomas Mann) in a series of more than forty titles on modern novelists, edited by Norman Page. The series is intended to

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