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Kafka's Other 'Trial'

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From: Jewish Exponent
Date: 20041125
Author:Leiter, Robert

Leiter, Robert
Jewish Exponent
11-25-2004
The poet W.H. Auden said of the great writer Franz Kafka that he was as
representative of the 20th century as Dante was of the 14th. There are few
who would dispute the claim. And yet, even now, more than 80 years after
Kafka's untimely death from tuberculosis, it still seems relevant to ask
just how this Czech-born, German-speaking Jew -- a painfully thin, overly
sensitive, neurasthenic young man -- overcame his shortcomings to write
such classics of world literature as The Trial and the brilliant short
story "Metamorphosis."

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